Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole: preverbs

George Quasha

Selected by Chris Domenick

George Quasha’s “preverbs” do what Frank O’Hara said about Abstract Expressionist paintings: they leave “the event of [their] passage.” In a continuum of lines, or line clusters, they move down the page like bright fractals…. These are poems that turn their own originality inside out. They write on the veil they lift and dance a step or two beyond our reach.

William Benton, author of Backlit, Birds, and Madly: A Novel

Spuyten Duyvil

2020

Paperback