remanence
Parlor Press, 2008
As Ron Silliman has written, "Attention is all." The poems in remanence are supremely attentive to the world-or rather to the traces it leaves in our brains. They also make a study of misperception and error. This is a form of meditation. Much of the book is composed of five-line poems, each long line a semi-separate thought, a probe. Each a kind of echolocation. Gently, insistently, they bring us news of our position.
Interview
An interview with Boyer Rickel on remanence is posted on: Green Linden Press
Excerpts from remanence:
No Tell Motel
After disaster.
Habitat.
Vestige.
Free Verse
Surface., Cold glow., The death of anecdote.
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