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Summary: Michael Palmer is brilliant
Review: As something of a freelance poet, Michael Palmer is someone I've turned to for inspiration. I don't know any pseudo-intellectual words to describe it, but his manipulation of words and ability to touch people with even really abstract work astounds me. He moves me. For an example of some of the brilliant work in this collection, try looking at "The Sun" online. (...)P.S. Who is the moron that copied and pasted rave reviews but didn't star them? It really deflated the score.
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Summary: irreplaceable avant-garde modern poet
Review: Michael Palmer's poetry is so unique, & always unsparingly brilliant. This might be the most important book of his career, since it collects so much essential poetry he wrote over such a long period of time, such a major proportion of his life. He's done a lot more different things in his poetry since this book, & in the time span this selection covers. But this book is so important to get to know Michael Palmer, & what he's done to 20th & 21st century poetry.
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Summary: A particular music, in profile
Review: Oh, HERE's where the language was hiding. The elegance and eloquence of this voice do not bring to too much of a burnish the bristling underminings of narrative, the querulous investigations of syntax and meaning that are Palmer's "system of demicurves // and crests, veinous / gestures and radial splits". This system--forgive the imposition of expository prose--"is known to you / and was made by you // for this purpose / It is a great pleasure // to be cut". You are invited to make these cuttings, these pleasures, along with the poet--indeed, you are required to. As always: you must go on, you can't go on, you'll go on.
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