Sheer Indefinite
Description
The expansive poems in Sheer Indefinite assume many voices鈥攔etelling biblical narratives, mining personal histories, and inventing new worlds from whole cloth. Formally inventive, Fox delivers restless, cascading stanzas, connected prose poems, and verse that shifts from one form for another like a snake shedding a delicate skin. Read these poems to lose your grip on reality, to momentarily find yourself in a cab, in someone else鈥檚 memory, in a museum full of sharks. For all their strangeness, these poems express the wonder of being alive. As Fox says in 鈥渇loating world鈥: Open the door. You鈥檙e a mirror. The world takes you in.
Reviews
"Prepare to be dazzled; the poet is one of our best. Here everything speaks, not only Adam and his serpent, the angels and their demons, but everywhere voices (are) steaming in the air like hot milk, and the wind rises to whatever Earth says when we listen. These poems will take your breath away. They will give you your life back. What discourse is not magic?" 鈥Rikki Ducornet
"Alchemically, the poems in Skip Fox鈥檚 Sheer Indefinite will make the chocolate in your pocket melt." 鈥Bernadette Mayer
"I've been shifting around inside Sheer Indefinite for so long now, it almost feels like home鈥攖hat place every boll weevil wants to find at the end of its very long, yet also so very brief road. Skip Fox lent me this map. I鈥檝e got an aethereal film of magic gumbo on my shoes now, so that the slower I go, the sooner I arrive. And then I go back, and trace my way through dark woods again, just so as not to lose the feel of it." 鈥擳om Clark
Author Bio
Skip Fox has written several books and chapbooks of poetry and mixed-genre work as well as a lengthy bibliography. He is currently working on a nine volume text: Dream of a Book, four of which have been published: What Of (Potes & Poets), At That (Ahadada), For To (BlazeVox Books), and Delta Blues (Ahadada).
