Like Bismuth When I Enter

by Carlos Lara

In Like Bismuth When I Enter, Carlos Lara engages language in the purely creative aspect of language—it’s synthesis of dream and waking world. In these vibrant, hallucinatory poems, inspired by the element Bismuth and its iridescent surrealist structure, Lara attempts to produce a collective surge of new imagery, a new mind state, and structural undoing. Like Bismuth When I Enter captures that moment when the universe strikes you with an unmistakable reminder of mystery via the quotidian or the elemental.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2020

Reviews

[Carla · Rating 4 out of 5]

Verges a little close to the line of experimental nonsense and took me a while to get used to (the 35 page prose poem with zero full stops was completely unreadable), but I genuinely enjoyed lots of the silly imagery and ideas.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much of this was a bit over my head, but it was still very playful and enjoyable. God Wave was an incredible experience, a poem I cannot wait to come back to again and again

[jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

these poems went over my head, but i liked 'em anyways.

[Juan Preciado · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading.