Pen Chants: Or Nth or 12 Spirit-Like Impermanences

by Lissa Wolsak

Poetry. Cultural Writing. ".....I cannot so much as read a few phrases of Lissa Wolsak's poetry, than I am at it--thinking poetics, writing poetics, declaiming a nature of poetry I hazard to aver that I perceive there. No sooner have I worked what seems the sense of one of her remarkably suggestive phrases, than the event shifts under my cognitive gaze. It did mean thus and so--but having said that, another significance arises into view, another sense of the phrase's en-nested-ness in phrases gone before, another set of significant relations. There is a movement here of the most significant sort, that will not lend itself to precise determination, if only (but not only) because it is each determination that sets the thing in motion. There is a positive constancy, a rumor of a vast and happy sphere in the intuition of which and in the happiness of one's orientation toward which, integration of contingency and optimization towards harmonic opulence might thrive. Some texts or images exude the

Genres: Poetry

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First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Restfulsimulation · Rating 5 out of 5]

insanely good crazy

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

These page-sized poems have some enticing words:

blister-rust
conchy
immanencia
jink
devastatrix
endrenched
pleached
erosis
schismless
milk a scorpion?
percurrent
pnyx
aestheocratic
gnawn
murmurrant
tuftiest
emphysemen
demurreur
oyster-rose
adualurescence
vapour-bath
tambours
occurrent
vivider oud
it-rich
naze
insculpt
catacoustic
lililess
schoon
shadow-milks
mix-witness
omni-bear
civilizade
zool
suss-chordal
thoughtic
day-depth
snowblink