Erased Art

Poetry. "Facts and voices rush by in these poems, like signals bouncing back to us from radio or television, a mysterious concordance and discordance at the batting of an eye or ear. We have known the effect before, but Nathanson converts it to a pleasure ride, however fast it moves, however it unnerves us. Read ERASED ART as a true reflexion of our world--as real and absurd as this morning's news--here heard and overheard as poetry"--Jerome Rothenberg. "Tenney Nathanson's ERASED ART gives us a wild and exciting tour through the "venetian/ blind man's / bluff" of our 21st century landscape, replete with collage-stories in which Madame Bovary, Bill Clinton, Georgia O'Keefe, Karl Marx, and a host of minor characters from old movies and heroes of National Enquirer stories meet and find out what they have in common. This astonishing poetic tapestry, whose learned references to the poetics of the great Modernists are juxtaposed to fragments of Drudge Report-speak and academic absurdities, is as hilarious