The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker

by Edwin Torres and Cleo Qian

Poetry. Associated with both the spoken word and avant-garde literary communities of New York City, Edwin Torres has carved out an energetic and suggestive space between those worlds, mapping out a prospective direction for American poetry. "Edwin Torres's poetry--full of complex graphic experiments and daring sonic explorations--opens new creative possibilities, simultaneously challenging and delighting our intelligence" --Lorenzo Thomas. "Torres...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931824002
• ISBN13: 9781931824002
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not an easy book but worth the read

A challenging read that needs to be engaged in every way possible: read aloud, introspectively absorbed, and examined on the page. The joy in this collection come from the manner in which Torres' line breaks, leaps in logic, and typography unexpectedly bounces from the outer edges of LanguagePo and ends up in the diction of Classic Narrative.