Ring Cycle

By Alex Houen

Poetry. A beautiful, formidably intelligent yet profoundly inviting book, Alex Houen's much-anticipated RING CYCLE brilliantly orchestrates its many motifs across poems that move from the metaphysical to the intimate to the droll sometimes within one poem. Houen is a poet of lavish linguistic sensuality, his poems vibrating with his attunement to fissures within the self, between lovers; salutes to friends; romantic skirmish; the ambient dread of our moment. Houen's brilliantly mash-upping mind encompasses pirated DVDs, Dryden and Alexander McQueen, conceits poetic and contemporary and untimely and unheimlich. A book of enormous range, simultaneously lush and austere, RING CYCLE tracks the perversities of erotic and filial suspension alongside questions of conscience and aesthetics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912477076
• ISBN13: 9781912477074
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"