Like Bismuth When I Enter - by Carlos Lara (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The winner of the 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize that enters the space of ritual, incantation and trance with a stunning assemblage of images and structures.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Like Bismuth When I Enter, </i> Carlos Lara engages in the purely creative aspect of language--its synthesis of dream and waking world. In these vibrant, hallucinatory poems, inspired by the element bismuth and its iridescent, surrealist structure, Lara attempts to produce a collective surge of new imagery, new mind states, and structural undoings. <i>Like Bismuth When I Enter</i> captures that moment when the universe strikes one with the unmistakable reminder of mystery via the quotidian and the elemental.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Phrases, sentences, lines, and fragments scintillate and spark with multiple realities. Lara has risked a great deal to transcend sense and form as we understand it to make a remarkably fresh and majestic book. I feel returned to the primordial, the preclassical, the prelingual. Stein wanted to make words new; Lara has picked up the mission and carried it far.--<b>Kazim Ali, <i>Judge's Citation for Nightboat Books Poetry Prize</i></b></p> <p>Carlos Lara's <i>Like Bismuth When I Enter</i> consists of language that transmutes itself as a quantum hawk flying through non-sequential fractures of existence. His lingual exploration teems with the uncanny as it explores random planes such as a 'numb Serengeti of drool, ' all the while 'approving of love and life.' Via tangential subversion, Lara's language expresses the genuine pedigree of the poetic act.--<b>Will Alexander<b></p> <p>Some poets think beauty is truth; others think truth--bare, odd, arbitrary, unrestrained--is beautiful. Carlos Lara falls in with the latter. Poems of such poets are often called 'difficult.' But what if difficulty wrote its own book of poems, about what you think of it and how that makes it feel? Well, Lara read that book and then wrote this one, answering difficulty's prayer for itself: Show me to be 'real life true freedom'--'not explained yet that is also beauty.'--<b>Jessica Laser</b></p> <p>Realizing an abstract freedom opposed the determinism of everyday life, Lara's poetry has an intrinsic social value. With an epigraph that reads 'for my grandfathers, ' he sets the tone for a book of origins, only these origins point back to a multicultural, inter-traditional history, and then encircle the present moment like a warm sirocco wind. Lara's linguistic consciousness is less a juxtaposition of phrases in the form of collage than a kind of attentive listening that discovers harmonic connections between disparate conceptual planes.--<b>Jeffrey Grunthaner, <i>Hyperallergic<i></b></p> <p><i>Like Bismuth When I Enter</i> shows a technician at work on the aesthetic forces of production, an enthusiast laboring under the rusty hood of Surrealism.--<b>Austin Carder, <i>Caesura Magazine</i></b></p> <p>Lara's work--aggressively gorgeous; confident--possesses a syntax (& voice), that despite its brazen eccentricity, we associate w reason.--<b>Tourniquet Review</b></p> <p><i>Like Bismuth When I Enter</i> is an urgent undoing of sense and syntax, an epistemology of disruption, a move toward a lawlessness of language. Surrealistic or post-surrealistic, fast-paced, not quite humorous, not quite tragic, fully felt and full of oddly affective new imageries and juxtapositions, the book invites the reader to reread past, present, and future micro and macro worlds differently, disparately, and spontaneously.--<b>Jason Magabo Perez, <i>Ploughshares</i></b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carlos Lara is the author of <i>The Green Record</i> and co-author of <i>The Audiographic As Data.</i> The poem "God Wave" was published as a chapbook in 2018. Other poems and translations have appeared in <i>Lana Turner, Seedings, Vestiges, Aurochs, Flag + Void, Gulf Coast, Omniverse, </i> and elsewhere. He abides in Los Angeles.
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