Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind
SCORNED BEAUTY COMES UP FROM BEHIND: PREVERBS is one of seven preverb complexes comprising the unpublished book Exchanging Intentions, itself one of seven books of preverbs, of which the first to be published was VERBAL PARADISE (Zasterle: 2011). A preverb is like a proverb, a one-line capture of wisdom, but at the raw stage before wisdom. Such an open intentional act of language invites configurative reading as a singular event of variable meaning. An instance of axial poetics, it puts language on its own stepped-up recognizance. Robert Kelly writes, SCORNED BEAUTY is the most gripping series of poems I've read in a long time. Wise, funny, humble, arrogant, love-sick, swooning into uncountable clarities. It seems the full maturation of work, of presence.
George Quasha
George Quasha is the co-founder of Barrytown/Station Hill Press. He is a poet and artist who works across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry (1975), and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in video art (2006).
- SCORNED BEAUTY is a poetry book in Quasha's "preverbial" series, which is some 15 years in the making. They are now appearing through Station Hill - including the forthcoming GLOSSODELIA ATTRACT - as well as other publishers.
- George Quasha maintains a vigorous performance schedule in the Hudson Valley and New York City and so publicity around his artistic enterprise is ongoing and vital, with a growing following.
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