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Novel Pictorial Noise – Poems by Noah Eli Gordon


In Novel Pictorial Noise, Noah Eli Gordon shifts frequencies as he has so deftly in the past, while establishing human connections across great analogous space. His prose style, for all its inroads into philosophy and bourgeois culture, becomes more interestingly a reflection of the speaker, an image of self told by removing the object from its signatory and replacing it with an observable, yet unknowable, context.

He laments those things that segue our attention from substance to substance – that we recall the transitory as having been the substance itself. His poems then become wonderful counterpoint; overloaded with substance while his hinges are frail and imperfect. A marvelous contrast acted out on the stage of poetry as a sort of Grand Guignol.

Gordon's wit and knack for off-beat analogy, pairing and simile are on display in their finest forms. He builds a subtext of straight rhetoric, which, at first glance is illusionary though its presence is clearly gleaned. A narrative of well-tooled language existing completely in the mind of the individual reader, however, as the poems move forward a closeness to the metaphorical appears, an intelligent design to the primordial ooze of verse. A wonderful, worth-reading Jenga of language Cubism and hissing pops of a record player.

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