80 pages Cover image by Deborah Meadows ISBN: 978-0-9808785-8-5 $13.45 + p&h URL: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/densities-apparitions/17278481 This book explores influence by crossing out or responding to poets who have influenced me. The Whitman and Andrade pieces are cross-outs, and anyone familiar with the first version of C*alamus* will notice that I did not respond to the entire collection. I left out pieces that I did not think would cut well for my project or pieces that have too much personal meaning for me. The response pieces to Leopardi and Neruda are probably even more telling, for in these pieces, it is sometimes difficult to see how the pieces directly relate to the original. Still, the influence is there reworked through my experience. —*William Allegrezza* *William Allegrezza* edits the e-zine *Moria* and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He has previously published five books, *In the Weaver's Valley*, *Ladders in July*, *Fragile Replacements*, *Collective Instant, *and *Covering Over*; two anthologies, *The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century **and **La Alteración del Silencio: Poesía Norteamericana Reciente*; seven chapbooks, including *Sonoluminescence*(co-written with Simone Muench) and *Filament Sense* (Ypolita Press); and many poetry reviews, articles, and poems. He founded and curated *series* *A*, a reading series in Chicago, from 2006-2010. In addition, he occasionally posts his thoughts at http://allegrezza.blogspot.com. |
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