GENERATOR PRESS 1992

We interrupt our regularly scheduled poetry programming to bring you the following noose item: Hank Lazer's INTER(IR)RUPTIONS is a damned pun to read, as long as you donut mine having yore convictions overtroped. For revolutionaries here's some mao bull in the china shop, moore public frauds, plus a stein full of double entry accounts tolling reverses in the economy of our polit(e)ical language. Three fears for Henry who, like his namesake, thoreauly surveys our "pro state cancer", puts "muddy in the bank", gets repeated citations for a "pair of taxes, identifies with loony boston birds, designs our metropolitan homes, & takes the bottomless measure of our wanting. Tanks for knotting, reggae rebbe.

INTER(IR)RUPTIONS presents a series of ten collage poems incorporating a wide range of layouts and materials, from batting averages to critical theory, from fashion and interior design columns to Emerson's Journals, from solicitations by a literary agent to research in neurophysiology. INTER(IR)RUPTIONSplaces poetry's more traditional lyrical and narrative voices within a bombarded and over determined linguistic field. At once humorous and metaphysically in earnest, Lazer's INTER(IR)RUPTIONS explores a poetry fusing poesis and politics.

A native of San Jose, Califomia, Lazer has taught for fourteen years in the English Department at the University of Alabama, where he is Assistant Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts. Lazer is also a noted critic of contemporary poetry. In addition to INTER(IR)RUPTIONS, 1992 will see the publication of Doublespace. a major collection of Lazer's poetry from the 1970's and 80's, by Segue Books.