Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck Poetry Series)

"Sparing of punctuation, stripped of directive syntax, and arranged in airy cascades... Susan Gevirtz's HOURGALSS TRANSCRIPTS first appears as a network of fragments: Calder-like sculptures that rotate randomly in the breezes of sound and tentatively applied sense. But Gevirtz, a San Francisco poet of the Language persuasion, knows how to conjure the vibrant inner life of words and phrases by revealing their homophonic hailing frequencies ('many entrances / many embraces entrance us') and unpredictable contextual tensions ('Space is a frame up / we fill ourselves / in'). Her poems are intricate and scrupulously designed, but passive readers should be warned that conscious, creative engagement is required to navigate their ever-shifting, suggestive terrain."Susan Gevirtz is the author of 'Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck Poetry Series)', published 2001 under ISBN 9781886224407 and ISBN 1886224404.