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Comin’ ‘Round: Selected Writings
Poetry and Prose Works by James Sherry
ISBN 978-1-946104-55-7
Library of Congress Card Number: 2024946318
First Edition First Printing by Chax Press, Tucson
270 pages
From Lazy Sonnets to environmental crisis, from nuclear poetics to Machiavellian schemes, from sprung lyric to channeling genres, from webs of friends to prosodic prose, James Sherry has covered the literary waterfront with prescient acumen and an ear for the tangos in tangles. Comin’ ’Round is here. — Charles Bernstein
James Sherry takes a system, pragmatics it, re-systemizes the pragma. Throughout his richly reservoirist career, Sherry has championed the centrifuge to mitigate location by within’ing eras in err—embracing the modular ungraspable, “the circulation of intelligence is really the circulation of spontaneous life.” This collection embraces the unsayable that awaits the entropic everyday, “my books pack ink in every line, dear.” Indeed, Sherry knows our grand “inference machine” is interaction as ontology, our frieze states of being, Muybridge collaptics. — Edwin Torres
A magnificent multi-faceted language romp through a remarkably instigative career of poetry and related doings, James Sherry has gathered up this circular eternal return of Comin’ ’Round into a vibrant concatenation of multiple angles and attitudes in a range of genres. This tome is full of surprising trapeze acts. “We trust in lip, / trying to genie perform back in.” is one of my favorite takeaways. — Anne Waldman
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