Sonnets

by Bruce Andrews

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Bruce Andrews is an experimental poet, performance artist, literary theorist & recently retired (after 38 years) left-wing professor of political science. As Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs and, in performance, live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances.Most recent of a dozen or so big books is last year’s "You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!", followed by a chapbook, "Yessified (Sally’s Edit)" celebrating the Andrews Symposium and its expanded archive, online at www.fordhamenglish.com/bruce-andrews, with links to interviews, performance texts, poetry, collaborations, and critical essays on his work. Another online archive (and interactive project) materialized on April 1, 2014 as a curated 25 hour ‘twitter sculpture’ [Twitter.com @BruceAndrews25h], a 300 poem sequence.

Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 3 out of 5]

I sometimes wonder: Who reads this stuff other than me? Thinking that it seems like such a 'refined' taste that very, VERY few people wd read it. &, yet, Andrews is widely published - including in large edition & circulation bks like the Norton "Postmodern American Poetry" - & must, therefore, be 'widely' read (at least by standards of poetry reading). I usually like his way w/ words - he fucks them w/o fucking them up, inseminates them w/o making them poignant. This is a collection of short poems. "PROXIMO" begins:

"the hand
antique formaldehyde
weds
of a hung man
to be a toy museum"

It hangs together like bones from a variety of species dangling from a clothes hanger & YOU are the forensic anthropologist who refuses to conclude from them.