Novaless

by Nicholas Manning

Paul ValŽry wrote that Òa poem is a really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state of mind by means of words.Ó Novaless is a device for producing reveries composed of precognitive, poetic thought constructed as a schematic screen of letters and symbols flowing continuously across several axes. Each generation of poets must crack the codes for detecting culturally jammed poetic wavelengths. Like Ray Di PalmaÕs ur-texts, The Sargasso Transcries and Marquee in the early 70s, Nicholas ManningÕs Novaless permits us to listen directly to these currently camouflaged poetic bandwidths, where strata of definitions, distortions and dreams may be accessed and deciphered, tracing an essential foundational blueprint for future visual/verbal poetic wordscapes. Ñ Nick Piombino

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Published January 1, 2007