Neutral

By Bill Shute

NEUTRAL is a one hundred twenty page open-field poem, extending the format/technique used in Shute's previous poetry books TWO SELF-PORTRAITS (After Murillo), COMPLEMENTARY ANGLES, TOMORROW WON'T BRING THE RAIN, and RIVERSIDE FUGUE.

NEUTRAL is a more expansive work than those, presented on a larger canvas, influenced by the minimal approach of poet Frank Samperi and composer J?rg Frey, along with the diptych paintings of Andy Warhol.

Shute's work is rooted in the post-Projective Verse poetics of Blackburn, Berrigan, and Eigner, but completely his own. The poetry echoes his work with such avant-garde musician-composers as Derek Rogers, Mari Rubio (aka More Eaze) and Alfred 23 Harth, while being steeped in the culture and particulars of the present-day Gulf Coast and South-Central Texas.

The book's epigraph comes from composer Morton Feldman, "silence is my substitute for counterpoint." A career-spanning Selected Poems, Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age, was published by Moloko Print in Germany in late 2021.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BRZ7H37Z
• ISBN13: 9798509522093
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"