Logicalogics: Poems

by Ronald Palmer

In Logicalogics , Palmer turns gender and queer theory inside out and offers his life and mind as a scientific anomaly, offering snippets of his jolting responses to 21st century consciousness. He comes out as a young queer person within the AIDS pandemic, and documents that historical moment and precisely how it happened inside his own body, while capturing the aftermath of a clinically dysfunctional as well as emotionally and psychologically incestuous family. In styles that range from punctuation experimentation combining techniques of ee cummings and A. R. Ammons to a blurring of dream language into political statement using the lyric tradition, to the modes of narrative poetry, confessional poetry and surrealism, Palmer seeks to narrow the gap that both Frank O’Hara and Gertrude Stein posited about the infancy of writing and the middle age of painting.

Genres: Poetry

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2005

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Reviews

[Richard]

In Logicalogics Palmer turns gender and queer theory inside out and offers his life and mind as a scientific anomaly, offering snippets of his jolting responses to 21st century consciousness. He comes out as a young queer person within the AIDS pandemic, and documents that historical moment and precisely how it happened inside his own body, while capturing the aftermath of a clinically dysfunctional as well as emotionally and psychologically incestuous family. In styles that range from punctuation experimentation combining techniques of ee cummings and A. R. Ammons to a blurring of dream language into political statement using the lyric tradition, to the modes of narrative poetry, confessional poetry and surrealism, Palmer seeks to narrow the gap that both Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein posited about the infancy of writing and the middle age of painting.

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Palmer’s logicalogics leaves me beautifully off-balance. Its blend of heady sex, heavy theory, and carefully rendered coming-of-age sentiment puts the ‘I’ through a slurry of "logics," social, theoretical, and literary, until it runs out the other side burnished into flakes of gold. Part memoir, part philosophy, part mad scientist in the language lab, Palmer’s particular yawp straddles the camps that organize business-as-usual U.S. verse; it’s worth leaving whatever fire you warm at for.

[Ronald Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote this book. It took me ten years to write. Mostly throughout an M.A. program at NYU (1991-93), a Ph.D. (1994-96) program, while teaching in Massachusetts (1996-99) and finally during a post-doctoral research year in The Netherlands (2000).

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing. I have to admit I'm biased, but it takes big balls to write something like this. let's celebrate all of our survivals!