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    A Mammal of Style
    A Mammal of Style
    A Mammal of Style
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    A Mammal of Style

    By Ted Greenwald and Kit Robinson

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    Poetry. "A MAMMAL OF STYLE is funny and swell. Greenwald and Robinson, two great mammals of the American idiom, combine ingenuities to make ordinary language sing. In totally transformed trad forms (sonnets, sestinas, haibun—yes, haibun!), these poems are perfectly off-kilter and full of 'clean energy.'"—Nada Gordon. "I LOVE SPEECH-tinkering. No accent soloist in a dialectal orchestra, 'Enter: Trombone' with collocations, frozen expressions, idioms, hyponymy—preconditioned stuff of a spoken commons. A, not the. Maybe sperm whale, maybe jerboa. Mammal, not algorithm, of style, as in, not automatic. A manual transmission. Of style, not writing. Fourteen liners, phrase-prose, sestinas, an autumnal Spring N All, pithy tercets with titles that come and go. 'The time is now // And then.'"—Louis Cabri. "Collaboration—the kind I like anyway—creates environments in which attention and care towards the other is primary, and the ways we've learned to pin down subjectivities become unmoored. Greenwald and Robinson volley playful, critical, and fluid language within live forms, attuned as they are to local stations' signals. USAmerican English idioms are twisted and reworked; computer commands are made to emote; the remix occurs concurrent with 'the original,' giving lie to singularity."—Alli Warren. "A MAMMAL OF STYLE lets language light the distances between mind & matter, sound & sense, form & metamorphosis, confession & concept. This book is an unstable beauty." —Arlo Quint 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9781931824538
    A Mammal of Style
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    Ted Greenwald

    Ted Greenwald (1959-2016) had published extensively for over fifty years. He was the author of over thirty books, including Common Sense, Age of Reasons, Licorice Chronicles, Word of Mouth, Jumping the Line, In Your Dreams, 3 and Clearview/LIE. Greenwald's work had been featured in the PennSound Series, the Segue Reading Series at the Bowery Poetry Club and Public Access Poetry. Heralded as an innovator in the world of poetry, Greenwald was a trailblazer for modern poets everywhere through his creation of Language poetry, inviting the reader to find meaning instead of the poet providing one.

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