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Jonathan Aaron
JOURNEY TO THE LOST CITY |
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | SELECTED POEMS | VIEW CART “‘I could be five and just waking up from another nightmare,’ says the narrator in ‘The End of Out of the Past.’ ‘Half the world is lying in ruins.’ Such is the archetypal Aaron landscape, where refugees from dreams, film noir, and horror movies discover themselves in oblique narratives of improbability, cruelty, and sinister ordinariness. Aaron keeps his cool as he picks his way among the rubble like his dadaist hero Kurt Schwitters, making new shapes from shattered old ones. Elegant and quietly dangerous, Jonathan Aaron is our best cicerone to a world whose public madness makes the private ones seem sane.” —Rosanna Warren REVIEWS & COMMENTS On earlier work: “Reading his poems one is reminded of a tradition of wonderful misfits in literature, unclassifiable writers like Henri Michaux and Bruno Schulz, anti-poets suspicious of literature who are at the same time its biggest addicts. Only a style which is a carnival of styles seems to please them. That’s our poet too…. Memory, dream, movies, history, myth intermingle to give Aaron’s poems the texture they have. I admire the way he joins these disparate elements together. He is a magical realist, a Luis Buñuel of poetry.” —Charles Simic in The Partisan Review “Aaron’s work is exceptional writing, never mind the poetry.” —The Times Literary Supplement |
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