The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions Paperbook)
“Alexander’s poems are unpunctuated, their expanding structures suggest that each might be read as a single very long, very complex sentence…a complex sentence machine turning out elaborate grammatical parallelisms, extensive series of epic catalogues, and open-ended syntax of discordant clauses and appended prepositional phrases.” (HarRyette Mullen - Callaloo)“Alexander’s verbal flights strike me as more shamanistic than free-associational or automatic. His evocation of upper and lower worlds, and his vocabulary which bridges poetry, philosophy, myth, and science, give his verbal fulgurations a sense of linguistic seed that suddenly sprouts, then resprouts…. He may be the first major ‘outsider artist’ in American poetry. Whatever he is, he is a force to reckon with, whose self-propelled soarings evoke Simon Rodia’s ‘Watt’s Tower’ as well as Siberian ecstasies.” (Clayton Eshleman - American Poet)“Formidable. Alexander encourages the reader to ... let the poem itself exist as its own unique world.” (Andrew Wessels - The Quarterly Conversation)“An unusual poet who likes unusual word…these poems look fresh and alien.” (Jesse Tangen-Mills - Times Literary Supplement)