Taking part in the tactics of Language poetry, where words "mean" in all directions, like ballbearings ricocheting in empty rooms (& what room is ever "empty"?). CODE ZERO is a collection of short lyric poems--"baffled by whom"--where the author's presence retreats behind fragments of sentences adding up to nothing, and something. From "Decision to Action":
reveals a motion as subjectless
improves a communications tenfold
honed in at a reason nearly active
CODE ZERO is discrete and funny, elusive as music on holiday.--Jeff Conant
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #3,
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