"The Coming Mental Range brings readers deep into the revolutionary poetics and philosophy of multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and musician Will Alexander. Gathering together a group of Alexander's short prose writings in his signature "vertical philosophy" with essays in poetics touching on the work of admired artists and poets (Byron Baker, Wanda Coleman, Pablo Jofr???e, Bob Kaufman and Gh???erasim Luca to name a few), in addition to several key interviews with the author, The Coming Mental Range serves as a critical ...
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"The Coming Mental Range brings readers deep into the revolutionary poetics and philosophy of multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and musician Will Alexander. Gathering together a group of Alexander's short prose writings in his signature "vertical philosophy" with essays in poetics touching on the work of admired artists and poets (Byron Baker, Wanda Coleman, Pablo Jofr???e, Bob Kaufman and Gh???erasim Luca to name a few), in addition to several key interviews with the author, The Coming Mental Range serves as a critical introduction to Alexander's work and thought and as a companion to volumes in poetry and philosophy like Asia & Haiti (Green Integer, 1995), Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (O Books, 1998), Compression & Purity (City Lights, 2011), and Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021). In The Coming Mental Range, "language crystallizes as imaginal blazing, as musical incandescence," and we are swept along in its roaring tides to other shores. As Alexander writes, "What is most concerning language must never fail at convincing, at emancipating its readership via transgressive spiral.""--
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