LATEST BOOK BY JULIANA SPAHR IS WELL RECEIVED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES “BOOK REVIEW”
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems By Spahr Called “Poetics of Superinformation”
Oakland, CA - This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems, a new book by Juliana Spahr, W.M. Keck Professor of Creative Writing and associate professor of English at Mills College, was well received recently in The New York Times “Book Review.”
Reviewed by Joel Brouwer and Joshua Clover in the July 17, 2005 issue, the book features two extended poems: “Poem Written After September 11, 2001” and “Poem Written from November 30, 2002 to March 27, 2003.” According to the reviewers, the poems “start with the cellular, the intimate, and reach after the whole shebang. It’s political poetry the way it’s love poetry; how can it not be, when you go for everything?”
The latter part of the book describes the approach to the war in Iraq, and is described as a “poetics of superinformation: a world where everything is connected, not only by virtue of the Rube Goldberg machine called history, but by the insistent flatness of data, the screen where all that appears, appears equivalent.”
The reviewers conclude, “the book seems, finally, like “poetry from the 21st century, poised between trying to vault from the flatness of this new world and trying to inhabit it fully.”
Spahr earned a BA from Bard College and a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has been teaching at Mills since 2003.
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems was published by the University of California.
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