James Sanders

Goodbye Public and Private James Sanders

Poetry. GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE is the work of a barbarian Thomas Edison--poems that are not simply wildly inventive but rather the end-result of a perpetual cycle of creation, destruction, and re-creation of poetic convention on every page. '[A]s a series of discarded habits, ' Sanders offers us everything from diagram poems--the 21st century equivalent of Charles Peirce's logical graphs--to procedural, conceptual, concrete, handwritten, hand-drawn poems driven as much by sight and sound as sense. We are awash in language and we are grateful--Lori Emerson