“Strickland’s lyric poetry reads the entire gamut
of knowledge – ‘from sails to satellites’ and
from shadows and spectres to spectral analysis – through
the figure of Simone Weil, for whom knowledge of the spirit
was to be attained by lived proof. Imagine this, and you will
appreciate how a lyric poetry of such ethereal embodiment
can be made to scintillate through hypertext, linked to lines
of flight and seeming fantasy. Yet the really good news is
that Strickland puts the lyric poem to the test as if, quite
as much as music, it were the very instrumentality of a quickening
mind.” |
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Marjorie Welish
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“Strickland has a sassy, funny mimic’s sense
– but also a steely sense of grammar and structure –
traditional forms are included, inverted, abstracted, sent
up – but attended to…[T]he elegiac feel of these
poems is haunting and passionate, inspiring the reader to
listen to the ‘waveforms’ of the human voice. They
read like the one long episodic dream of a being who exists
between atmospheres, like a mermaid: From WaveSon.net
2: ‘If you understand red, you understand ruby, / you
understand light bubbling up struck seam / first morning cliff;
you do not / mock the real / as you watch it subside and divide
and then run / like morning into the virtual.’” |
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Carol Muske-Dukes
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“In V the poetics of Wittgenstein and Weil
– quotidian, notational, mathematical, emotional –
are revisited and re-formed. They are, in a word, saved.
This is a thrilling work that is above all useful.” |
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Fanny Howe
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“Stephanie
Strickland is one of a handful of outstanding writers working
to forge poetic forms at the intersection of technological
innovation and the tradition of experimental writing. V
is radical in integrating new technology, not as a novelty
or special effect, but as a way of thinking.” |
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–Johanna
Drucker
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