Veiled spill
Subtitle: a sequence
By: Jan Clausen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: GenPop Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Vermont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780982359488
Work titles: Poems
Description: Begun in response to the Deepwater Horison oil spill disaster and European laws banning the full face veil, this book unfolds a meditation on the links and gaps between interior glimpses and sprawling histories, between the beauty of the moment and the terror of the plot. Bridging poetry and prose, lyric and documentary, sampling and improvisation, it tracks the brooding presense of brittle technologies, the obdurate contingencies of gender and race, the fate of religious questions in the absence of gods, and the desperate freedom of art at a time when conventional social action seems powerless to avert the wreck of the biosphere. Transfixed by the pressure of wildly cascading events that engulf the very possibility of narrative order, the sequence hints, as well, that in a world where "what is veined/is spilling everywhere," we are already in a revolutionary situation. -- taken from back cover.