Night & Ox

(Paperback)

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bronchia think
form a bombsight
think periosteum singing
particle falconry workpiece
two lowcut hills seeking
what stone is
for body
is herd
alliterations

Night & Ox is a long poem working its interruptions to a degree where it's broken by the will to live. A poem that invokes expansive loneliness, where the poet's emotional response is to endure. A crushed line of astral forms and anatomy in perpetual remove; it is a poem that nurtures vulnerability: some soft-footed embryo sounds against languages viscera. Night & Ox possesses a feral minimalism for those too tired and too frantic with joy to cope with narrative.
A fierce, ladderlike cri de cur at times a cri de cur Night & Ox pulses with sawblade nocturnes that gnaw through the very rungs on which theyre wrung. One part Jabberwocky-talkie, one part fatherhood ode, the poem seeks a threshold, where the mondayescent gives way to ardour, splendour, even love. Scott is a cosmoglot of the throats ravine, and this is his manic, pandemonic article of faith. Andrew Zawacki
Praise for Blert:
Scott takes us down to the basement of words, where sound and rhythm rule, and poets learn their craft. Blert is a strange and gorgeous work of linguistic materialism.' Dennis Lee

Author Bio

Jordan Scott: Jordan Scott is the author of Silt (2005), blert (2008) and, with Stephen Collis, Decomp (2013). Scott is the 2015/16 Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University. He lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.