The Sense Record

Synopsis

‘The Sense Record breaks every rule. Rather than being spare and fragmentary, Moxley’s work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular as an unstable construct, she features it in almost every poem. And rather than problematize meaning, Moxley has things to say and actually says them.’

Reviews of this Book

‘The Sense Record breaks every contemporary experimentalist rule. Rather than spare and fragmentary, Moxley’s work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular as an unstable linguistic construct, she features it in almost every poem, both as herself and as a relative position open to everyone. And rather than problematize meaning, Moxley has things to say and actually says them.’ —Cole Swensen

‘She recharges old forms by dismantling the archaisms and replacing them with her own uses of language. It’s lyric synthesis through a kind of dream narrative, only that dream world brings with it real questions of how to live here and now.’ —Dale Smith

Collections: All, Author: Jennifer Moxley, Books VAT Zero Rated, Poetry by individual poets

Category: Extent: 108pp, Format: Paperback, Publication Date: 25-Feb-03, Publication Status: Out of print, Subject: Poetry by individual poets, Trim Size: 216 x 140mm