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The 35 poems of this collection are pitted with reminiscences made approachable to the reader by their lack of self-absorption; it is the momentum of the will to persist by means of language--“moving, word by word”--against the incipient flickerings of mortality, that is their real logic. This act of self-propulsion may be subject to doubt (“Can we spend our lives feeding\/off simple endurance?”), but it is humbly pursued: Warsh resists the inflated rhetoric such preoccupations usually attract and sticks instead with (in the words of his colleague Clark Coolidge) “confusion, in strict order.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50008361599249,"sku":"CIN1887123784G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054791852305,"sku":"NIN9781887123785","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141613089041,"sku":"NLS9781887123785","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1887123784.jpg?v=1750867446"},{"product_id":"elixir-book-lewis-warsh-9781946433930","title":"Elixir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnimated by a poignant blend of humor, pathos, joie de vivre, and nostalgia, \u003ci\u003eElixir\u003c\/i\u003e is an extended meditation on everyday life and the passage of time. Fragments of narrative, overheard dialogue, song lyrics, and slant memoir surface and recede throughout. 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Warsh has been associated with the community of New York School writers who first met at The Poetry Project in Manhattan in the late 1960s, but as poet Forrest Gander writes, in a review of Warsh's book \u003ci\u003eInseparable, \u003c\/i\u003e his influence has been felt nationally and internationally. \u003ci\u003eOut of the Question \u003c\/i\u003eincludes two long poems: \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Rates, \u003c\/i\u003efirst published in 1967, and \u003ci\u003eThe Corset, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich appeared in 1986. Novelist Paul Auster described \u003ci\u003eThe Corset \u003c\/i\u003eas not a poem so much as a new way of seeing the world. There is a stunning intelligence at work here, a fierce, deadpan wit that disturbs and enlightens in equal measure. Auster's comment can be applied to all of Warsh's ongoing experiments, as both a poet and a fiction writer, and \u003ci\u003eOut of the Question \u003c\/i\u003eis the best possible introduction to anyone unfamiliar with his multi-layered body of work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50463476744465,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50463477661969,"sku":"CIN1581771649G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1581771649.jpg?v=1750959568"},{"product_id":"one-foot-out-the-door-the-collected-stories-of-lewis-warsh-book-lewis-warsh-9780923389932","title":"One Foot Out the Door: The Collected Stories of Lewis Warsh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. Over 20 Years of Stories. What a pleasure to have all these stories by Lewis Warsh in one volume  They tend to be low-key, almost off- hand, but each with a poetic kernel that infects and defuses throughout, which makes them (though it is a critical cliche to say it this way) haunting. But that's what they do. They haunt. That's what the best writing does, often without excessive flashiness or even letting us know, as the narrative drifts through the material from which each is constructed, how it's done. These are extraordinary tales. Samuel R. Delany\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lewis Warsh's narrative always speaks to itself from a lyric threshold. A postmodern Delmore Schwartz yearning, mordant, suspenseful. Gloria Frym\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lewis Warsh moves through the crowded street, a reporter, pad in hand and pencil behind ear. The sentences hold the simple truths of his heart. That amidst the nearly incomprehensible violence of daily life one reality is a singular desire love. The purity of love, the essence of love. Recalling the quiet resonance of Salinger, drawing the curtain on the horror of inhumanity, settling down on rumpled sheets, alone or in reach of salvation, Lewis reports with poet- investigator eye that love has come to save the day. Thurston Moore\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The straight-from- the-shoulder idiom that powers Lewis Warsh's writing is a marvel of economy. Evoking memory without nostalgia, moving the reader without sentimentality, the stories in ONE FOT OUT THE DOR are lucid, formally adventurous, and emotionally complex. Like Stephen Dixon and Leonard Michaels, two other masters of plainspoken cosmopolitanism and rueful reflection, Lewis Warsh uses ordinary language as a means to an extraordinary inventiveness. 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