The Radiant Inventory

by Christopher Dewdney

Book by Christopher Dewdney

Genres: Poetry

107 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Christopher Dewdney has served as writer-in-residence at Trent, Western, and York universities. Featured in Ron Mann’s film Poetry in Motion with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Ondaatje, and Tom Waits, Dewdney has presented his groundbreaking poetics across North America and Europe.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good mix of Dewdney's work--some of the poems are very experimental, reminding one of William S. Burroughs's experiments with "cut-ups," while other of the poems are rather conventional (at least in comparison to Dewdney's more experimental work).

The book also includes some prose sketches of the sort one finds in Dewdney's prose works (Acquainted with the Night : Excursions Through the World After Dark, Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era, and Secular Grail). So, a good overview of some of Dewdney's poetic modes.