David Kennedy has asked me to forward the following:
Best wishes
Matthew
Alan Halsey's WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL: SELECTED WRITING 1978-98 is just
published, and is now available from Stride for 9.95 pounds [or 15 dollar
bills to the States] including postage.
WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL is a collection of texts which explore the
no-man's-land between poetry and prose, direct reference and distant
connotation, private and public language: areas in which the semantic,
visual and aural aspects of language tend simultaneously toward multiple
ambiguity and refusal of common meaning. Reviewing FIVE YEARS OUT (1989)
Tim Woods wrote: 'Colloquialism, space-technological terms, Biblical
phrases,
linguistic jargon, allegory and more intimate language, jostle with one
another in the absence of a validated hierarchy of discourse.'
WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL offers a further exploration of more extensive areas of
discourse: historical and fictional narrative, political rhetoric and
popular reportage, critical theory, science and pseudo-science, the
emblematic and the lyrical, philosophical and
autobiographical, interlaced with the shifts and twists of the vernacular.
'This is a poetry sensitive to decline and the thin veneer of prosperity
both a fierce and quiet book, determined, and without illusion, the kind of
poetry we need.' (Angel Exhaust)
Halsey's writing rivets words to the page, as he rivets the reader's
attention on the movement of language and words through space.
(fragmente)
'His grasp of language, or the many layers and interiorities that make a
text work, is about second to none.' (Chicago Review)
Available from: Stride, 11 Sylvan Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 6EW. Cheques
payable to 'Stride'.
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