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Night & Ox
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Night & Ox

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Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it’s broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet’s emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative. ‘A fierce, ladderlike cri de coeur - at times a cri de cur - Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they’re wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the mondayescent gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat’s ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.’ - Andrew Zawacki Praise for Blert: ‘Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.’ - Dennis Lee

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Coach House Books
Country
Canada
Date
18 October 2016
Pages
88
ISBN
9781552453292

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Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it’s broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet’s emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against language’s viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative. ‘A fierce, ladderlike cri de coeur - at times a cri de cur - Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which they’re wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the mondayescent gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throat’s ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith.’ - Andrew Zawacki Praise for Blert: ‘Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.’ - Dennis Lee

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Coach House Books
Country
Canada
Date
18 October 2016
Pages
88
ISBN
9781552453292