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Irresponsibility

Poetry. "Put this book down and go be with other people," urges Chris Vitiello in his playful and grave second book. Where music, science, and poetry discover the grounding necessity of measurement in this work, Vitiello is just as likely to destabilize, boldly, all manner of life, repeatedly undercutting urgent concrete statements and smashing them into granular moments. "The great pleasure of Chris Vitiello's IRRESPONSIBILITY comes from its outrageous conceit: to write ambitiously while refusing to render the act of writing in any of its normative or nostalgic guises. 'All you have to do is pay attention, ' Vitiello writes, 'and it's not that simple.' Each page of this absolutely essential book is a testimony to the thrills and difficulties of such unceasing attention" — Tony Tost

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781934103005
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2008