Complex Sleep (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781587296215)

Complex Sleep, Tony Tost's ambitious second book of poems, leaps upward with an astounding multiplicity of voices, utterances, and bursts. Each leap marks a sure and precise entry into a world of images, ideas, and sensations that is brand new - the true accomplishment of any poetic work. audacious in scope, swiping at meaning via language as fragmented music. Tost takes on the problem of physical shape, reorchestrates phrases according to the alphabet, and writes himself into the hypnagogic state between waking and dreaming. Informed by their own procedural constraints, these poems invent forms that tap the unconscious poetic, the very complexity embodied in sleep. All the while, Tost reforms utterance beyond the mere epistemology of much contemporary poetry. discovering the what, Complex Sleep is about discovering how to say what needs to be said. Skip the opera, this book performs.

Author: Tony Tost
ISBN-10: 1587296217
ISBN-13: 9781587296215
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.27h x 5.83w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/17/2007 pg. 38
Foreword 11/01/2007 pg. 1
Foreword 08/19/2009