{"id":201,"date":"2010-01-02T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/crowreviews\/?p=201"},"modified":"2010-01-02T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:52:22","slug":"angles-of-disorder-by-zachary-c-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/crowreviews\/2010\/01\/angles-of-disorder-by-zachary-c-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGLES OF DISORDER – by Zachary C. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANGLES OF DISORDER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BlazeVOX (Books) (www.blazevox.org)<\/a> ; 2009 – 96 pages<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m writing this review in reverse, but the almost too brilliant Angles of Disorder<\/em> by Zachary Bush is a deconstructive whirlwind around the wheel of life, which when it ends, kind of pulls the whole thread together with a poem entitled \u201cThe Hard Truths About Living and Dying,\u201d particularly the last line:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you die there is no breath, and your life\u2019s true purpose is finally realized. There is absolutely no meaning, and there is a great disappointment that can never be eradicated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps not so hopeful, but what did you expect from a book whose sections are marked off by a stick figure, ostensibly \u201cthe poet\u201d who comes apart piece by piece throughout the manuscript and what\u2019s left afterward, the head (or perhaps even \u201cthe intellect\u201d) itself slips off the page until there is nothing left.<\/p>\n

What precedes that final line is a Smorgasbord of modernism, put on display by Bush and then reflected through his own prism meditating on the impossible contradiction of poetic existence, that is, a dissonance (disorder) permeating all functioning dichotomies (angles.) They\u2019re all here disguised in Bush\u2019s peculiar yet resonant rhetoric\u2026exquisite corpse (\u201cFrom Within The Vortex\u201d, invoked in \u201cThe Difference\u201d) concrete poetry (When You Are Dead) absurdist archetypes (\u201cThe Goldfish\u201d) dream journaling and yes, even some very clever and playful LangPo:<\/p>\n

\u201cOverweight Water Queen, sobbing top 50 Doo-Wop Hits. Sketching the differences in U.S. Stop Signs. An American Flag waxed in yellow wax hangs still-to-still life. The flag hangs 8 \u00bd feet above a village of matchstick castles, unable to melt because of the confused conversion. That, most likely, was just another Blackout contortion. See: no breeze, no sound & nothing near to sestina humidity. Yet something is sweating. Wax sings: drooping, dropping, releasing & splattering onto the sand. The sand, that resembles volcanic ash, covers the ground. Aquarius has gone tonight. \u2018A\u2019is as realized now. I see the all-consuming Frequency (trying like a bastard) to consume me\u2026<\/em>constantly dreaming in circles.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

-from \u201cFrom the center of The Circle\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The themes of \u201cHunger,\u201d \u201cTime\u201d and \u201cEnergy\u201d get their own sections, as these characteristics, personified, archetyped or otherwise, drive Bush\u2019 deconstructionist spiral.\u00a0 In the end, there is only the void or the sense of the abysmal, personified and manifest in Angles<\/em>\u2019 final section, by poems entitled \u201cWhile You Sleep In The City,\u201d Before the Spinning Color Wheel Becomes our Primary Source of Energy,\u201d and \u201cThe Last Three Days of Your Final Starvation.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe Disappearing Act\u201d in this section is among the darkest and most chilling in the whole collection:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis boy\u2019s mother once threw a pot of boiling water at his head when she caught him down in the basement, loving on the hunting dogs. This boy said nothing when the bigger boys shoved a branch inside of him. This boy was found in the woods by his father with the end of a branch planted deep inside of his ass.<\/em><\/p>\n

This boy, when no one was watching, would urinate and defecate on the things that were for sale: glass ashtrays, silverware, empty bookshelves, second-hand sofas, and manual typewriters. This boy\u2019s father laughed at him, when he found him in the woods, and called him a Patsy.<\/em><\/p>\n

This boy made sure his mother and father were deep asleep before he took off all of his clothes, walked out the back screen-door, and followed the moonlight to the middle of the lake\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Bush is at his strongest when he is grinding out his iconic prose analogies. Much of his experimental form here, while well executed, is at times superfluous to the otherwise powerful narrative that actually permeates the entire book with an impending sense of dread.\u00a0 It is in the prose passages where Bush truly synthesizes a model that is part Buddhist, part Scientific Method, into a genuinely fresh Surrealism. There is the implication that no matter how \u201cefficient\u201d a model for existence is developed by a poet or philosopher or any human for that matter, it\u2019s necessary imperfections lead back to a single, inevitable end.<\/p>\n

The ghosts of Ezra Pound and John Keats also haunt this book (\u201cThe Vortex & Memory\u201d) as Bush demonstrates in nearly all the pieces here his comfort with Negative Capability and the self-awareness of the poet.\u00a0 No question Angles of Disorder<\/em> is a BIG debut in the tradition of poets who are them-selves aware of pushing the form forward.\u00a0 What\u2019s unusual is finding this combination of talent and awareness in an author who is only twenty-five: not even Gen X but Gen Y.\u00a0 Many young authors over reach on debut collections, or are too anxious to \u201cflex\u201d their poetic muscles.\u00a0 Bush has given us plenty of flexing here, but delivers on all the goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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