Verge

By Morgan Lucas Schuldt

The poems in Morgan Lucas Schuldt’s debut collection, Verge, speak at once both brokenly and reparably of the body, of its lusts and devotions, its violences and “satisflictions.” Schuldt’s lyrics exploit the phonetic suppleness of the English language in a way that teases out (mischievously so, earnestly so) an ecstatic, carnal, tender kind of poetics that pays homage–in both name and spirit–to poets like Hopkins, Celan, Crane and Berryman, as well as ekphrastically to painters Francis Bacon, Joan Miro, and Hironymous Bosch.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Release date: Nov 21, 2007
• ISBN: 9781643171012

Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Morgan Lucas Schuldt died of complications from cystic fibrosis on Jan. 30, 2012, twelve days before his thirty-fourth birthday. Schuldt earned an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Literature at the University of Arizona. He completed two book-length collections, erros and Verge (Parlor Press, 2007), as well as three chapbooks, (as vanish, unespecially) (Flying Guillotine Press, 2012), L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, 2007). A writer of criticism, reviews and interviews, he was a mentor to many poets and a dedicated enthusiast of the work he loved, co-founding and editing CUE (A Journal of Prose Poetry), and editing CUE Editions, a chapbook series.

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the editors of the following journals who first published these poems, sometimes in slightly different versions:

Cannibal: Playa la Misión

Chelsea: Proem (published as Inventing the Body)

Cutbank: Landscape for a Sudden Other

Diagram: Minor Moans

Fence: Avec, Anon

Flights: Otherhow and The Mortician on Combustion & Release

Free Verse: Anachronistically Yrs, Version’s Verge and After Cy Twombly

Hotel Amerika: To Hopkins, and Homage to Bosch

LIT: No Where, Now Here, No We’re, and My Merely

The Massachusetts Review: The Mortician on the Art of Coming to Rest

Pleiades: The Coroner on the Dead of All Times

POOL: Cellulacra

Sentence: Triptych for Francis Bacon

Shampoo: Prayer I, Prayer II, and The Mortician On Angel Lust

Typo: On Seeing Leonardo’s Grotesques

Verse: section II of