Poetry. If what you relish about thought is its heft, velocity, its unpredictability, then Fred Muratori's THE SPECTRA will transport you. Visceral particulars—Batman, buzzsaws, wax-lustered cars, beef, and, yes, even Roy Orbison—propel readers beyond finitude in blunt cascades of 15 lines. Enjambments facilitate speed, precariousness, volatility while asking: "What if everything we think, from first synaptic spark to the last, is one thought, continuously digressive?" Parsed out in 13 syllables per line, life besieges readers as Muratori charts the source of the unsayable. Locomotion and elocution bring us to life's brim, to the subliminal spectra therein. One could cite Kant, Leibnitz and Wittgenstein to explain how Muratori twists conventional notions of meaning formation. The poet himself tips his hat to Wallace Stevens and others who fall into consciousness—Dupin, Bronk, Dahlberg, and Zukofsky. THE SPECTRA's thoughts-about-thought clang and balk, surprising us all.

The Spectra (Meander Scar)

Literature & Fiction

Muratori, Fred

Poetry

Stockport Flats

The Architectural Heritage of Tompkins County

History

Kammen, Carol

Corth, Richard

Truame, Lynn Cunningham

Americas

De Witt Historical Society

Poetry. "A CIVILIZATION, Fred Muratori's compelling collection, embraces its subject as an embedded contradiction: 'Lost now, and in / need of reconstruction. / This dark age, / never more / enlightened, / falls prey / to self-regard, / its beauty / recognized by torchlight, / shouted to the night.' More than a Freudian imposition of will and idea on a savage 'id,' civilization emerges as the mystery at the heart of consciousness: 'No pruning / tames the vine, / the bold momentum. / More than ever / hope and blindness / arc the known, describing next.' The poet's lines, fragments of broken sense, point like an explicate finger at an implicate order, the elusive flow impaled on our yearning for wholeness, the mother of sorrow, the father of war, and the glue that holds us together. More than a reflection on Heraclitean strife, Muratori's work gives us a glimpse of the container that attempts to hold the flow of All Things, a poem unto itself, an impossible imperative that demands our attention—commands it."—Paul Pines

A Civilization

Dos Madres Press

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