Verge

Morgan Lucas Schuldt's debut volume of poetry will appeal to lovers of poets as diverse and disparate as Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings, Robert Creeley, Stephane Mallarme, and Harryette Mullen. He uses his slippery syntax and flexible lexicon to conjure up a collection of fast moving poems that owe as much to hip-hop as they do to Gerard Manley Hopkins. There are a number of ekphrastic poems that pay homage to painters like Hieronymus Bosch and Francis Bacon as well. Schuldt is one of the bright lights in the poetry world, a member of a generation of young poets who are rewriting (as every generation should) what poetry can be.

Poetry. The poems in Morgan Lucas Schuldt's debut collection, VERGE, speak at once both brokenly and reparably of the body, of its lusts and devotions, its violences and "satisflictions." Schuldt's lyrics exploit the phonetic suppleness of the English language in a way that teases out (mischievously so, earnestly so) an ecstatic, carnal, tender kind of poetics that pays homage-in both name and spirit-to poets like Hopkins, Celan, Crane and Berryman, as well as ekphrastically to painters Francis Bacon, Joan Miro, and Hieronymous Bosch.

The poems of Morgan Lucas Schuldt have appeared in FENCE, Verse, and Lit; online at Shampoo, Coconut, Typo, and Free Verse; in the anthologies PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor, and Best New Poets 2007; and in the chapbook, Otherhow (Kitchen Press 2007). A brief essay on the poet Larry Levis appears in A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (2004). A graduate from the University of Arizona's MFA program, Morgan lives in Tucson where he edits the literary journal Cue.

Publisher: Parlor Press
Distributor: Parlor Press
Publication Date: 11-01-2007
Pages: 68
Measurements: 5oz