Os

by Roberto Harrison

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "The relentless creaking, whistling, howling, and ultimately devouring power of the American jungles comes through in virtually every one of these poems. In the great tradition of Latin American poets who've striven to sensually and intelligently sing of the terrible passage to regeneration, Harrison (adept and hip to that tradition) adds a new memory buffer overrun of historical consciousness. Continually refreshing our memory through a wild "real-time" syntax, OS neither gets snowed in by the Northern Obsession of perception for perception's sake (as ever-redeeming spirit), nor swamped by the Symbolist Ritualisms of a pre-lapsarian South. Could this be bio-conductivity's first run at poetry?"-Rodrigo Toscano.

66 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Roberto Harrison was born in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1962, to Panamanian parents. A few months after his birth, he and his family moved back to Panama, where they lived until he was seven. In 1969, he and his family moved to Delaware. His first language was Spanish, and he did not begin learning English until arriving in Delaware. He has lived in various places throughout the United States including Boston, Bloomington, Indiana and San Francisco. He now lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he works as a Systems Librarian. He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy, and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series.

(http://www.litmuspress.org/pages/harr...)

Reviews

[C Rex]

This is Roberto's second book by publication date, but the poetry actually predates the work in his terrific Counter Daemons published by Litmus Press earlier in the same year.