The offering from quarter after press is wrack by Lawrence Upton.
wrack contains three sets: I wrack, Intimacies and pages from a book of the dead.
The writing is solo and polyvocal. There are multivoice texts; and a range of visual texts.
Chris Goode writes: “I can’t leave Wrack alone, I keep returning, making sure I’ve taken it all in, and of course I haven’t, and it’s becoming overwhelming. I deeply admire this work for how sustained it is, and how various are its movements; I envy it and recoil from it because it turns out to be, frankly, shocking in its courageous insistence on putting the body where the mouth is. Upton sets the reader to serious dancing – across disputed borders, between the lines of an exhausted official discourse whose stickman spokesmen have no body to dance with. Wrack shocks more because its shocks come slowly, surfacing patiently through strata of the matter being dealt with. Voices multiply, words divide; stillness and mobility keep clinching each other in the same act. It’s love made real in the compound eye of attention, in the weal of heed not quite yet speechless. All of the Lawrence Uptons yet known to us and one or two still arriving converge in these texts, in this shifting body of work, the wrack not left behind.”
wrack
Lawrence Upton
93 pages
quarter after press
On Issuu: http://issuu.com/quarterafter/docs/upton_wrack
