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    Night & Ox
    Night & Ox
    Night & Ox
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    Night & Ox

    By Jordan Scott

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    bronchia think
    form a bombsight
    think periosteum singing
    particle falconry workpiece
    two lowcut hills seeking
    what stone is
    for body
    is herd
    alliterations

    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 cÅ?ur – 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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateOct 11, 2016
    ISBN9781770564831
    Night & Ox
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    Jordan Scott

    Jordan Scott is a poet whose work includes Silt, Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox. The recipient of the 2018 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for his contributions to Canadian poetry, he has also written a book for children entitled I Talk Like a River. He currently resides with his wife and two sons in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.

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