{"product_id":"coming-mental-range-book-will-alexander-9781933959528","title":"The Coming Mental Range","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new collection of short prose writings in Will Alexander's signature vertical philosophy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE COMING MENTAL RANGE brings readers deep into the revolutionary poetics and philosophy of multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and musician Will Alexander. Gathering together a group of Alexander's short prose writings in his signature vertical philosophy with essays in poetics touching on the work of admired artists and poets (Byron Baker, Wanda Coleman, Pablo Jofr , Bob Kaufman, and Gh rasim Luca to name a few), in addition to several key interviews with the author, \u003cem\u003eThe Coming Mental Range\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a critical introduction to Alexander's work and thought, and as a companion to volumes in poetry and philosophy like \u003cem\u003eDivine Blue Light\u003c\/em\u003e (City Lights, 2022), \u003cem\u003eRefractive Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (New Directions, 2021), and \u003cem\u003eTowards the Primeval Lightning Field\u003c\/em\u003e (O Books, 1998). In \u003cem\u003eThe Coming Mental Range\u003c\/em\u003e, language crystallizes as imaginal blazing, as musical incandescence, and we are swept along in its roaring tides to other shores. As Alexander writes, What is most concerning language must never fail at convincing, at emancipating its readership via transgressive spiral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs readers of Alexander's writing have come to expect, it is swarming with information from a vast library -- like one lost in Alexandria -- that the author has absorbed into his bloodstream: philosophy; science of all kinds from color theory to the study of insects and lemurs; alchemy, geography; the Dogon; mining in Zimbabwe in 41,000 B.C.; science fiction; and the output of little-known writers. And really this is just the tip of the iceberg.--John Yau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe desire in such writing is for a paradise of language, for the creation in language of a reality that uses particles that ignite new constellations as they foment interlocking nonsequitur constellations that ignite new constellations as they burst.--Clayton Eshleman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Alexander is our alchemist. We are his raw materials. -- Andrei Codrescu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essay. Hybrid. Poetics. African \u0026amp; African American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54368893272337,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":54368893731089,"sku":"CIN1933959525VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781933959528.jpg?v=1787202029","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/coming-mental-range-book-will-alexander-9781933959528","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}