A new poetry collection from a great American visionary.
Iván Argüelles fills his Blank Page with astounding poetry, bringing us through Homeric, Dantesque, and Vedic worlds as well as the Americana of his youth in beautifully constructed lines with imaginative juxtapositions that would be the envy of André Breton or Paul Éluard. Carl Landauer "
It is difficult, William Carlos Williams famously wrote, to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack of what is found there. In Iván Argüelles brilliant new book we follow a fecund mind through our plague year. Day by day, poem by poem, Argüelles unspools the internal news, speedy, profuse, enjambed and unwilling to cycle through the usual bromides and pronouncements. This is language on fire, midnight speech unraveled, crafted and raw, overflowing and yet aching toward a sublime silence where meaning diminishes/ in mulch and nothing comes back. The Blank Page is news that wont be forgotten. Philip Brady, author of The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics
Innovative and prolific Mexican-American poet, Iván Argüelles, is the author of many books and chapbooks of poetry. His collection, Looking for Mary Lou, won the 1989 William Carlos Wiliams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2013, he received a lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A retired librarian, he has resided in Berkeley since 1978. He is the identical twin of New Age Prophet José Argüelles (d. 2011). Iván's latest books are THE SHAPE OF AIR: FRAGMENTS (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), THE RUDIMENTS OF POETRY: NEW POEMS 2017-2018 (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2020), TWILIGHT CANTOS (Luna Bistone Prods, 2019), CIEN SONETOS (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019), and LAGARTO DE MI CORAZÓN (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018).
Iván Argüelles fills his Blank Page with astounding poetry, bringing us through Homeric, Dantesque, and Vedic worlds as well as the Americana of his youth in beautifully constructed lines with imaginative juxtapositions that would be the envy of André Breton or Paul Éluard. Carl Landauer
" It is difficult, William Carlos Williams famously wrote, to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack of what is found there. In Iván Argüelles brilliant new book we follow a fecund mind through our plague year. Day by day, poem by poem, Argüelles unspools the internal news, speedy, profuse, enjambed and unwilling to cycle through the usual bromides and pronouncements. This is language on fire,
midnight speech unraveled, crafted and raw, overflowing and yet aching toward a sublime silence where meaning diminishes/ in mulch and nothing comes back. The Blank Page is news that wont be forgotten. Philip Brady, author of The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics
