Nervous Device
Nervous Device In Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner takes inspiration from William Blake's "bounding line" to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience. Intellectually…
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Nervous Device
In Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner takes inspiration from William Blake's "bounding line" to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience. Intellectually informed, yet insistent on their objecthood, Wagner's poems express a self-conscious skepticism even as they maintain an optimistically charged eroticism. Using this as a figure for sexual, political and economic interactions, Wagner's poems shift between seductive lyricism and brash fragmentation as they negotiate the failure of human connection in the twilight of American empire.
She writes with an obscure, magnetic lens. . . . "Wagner's fourth collection contains poems of memory and dark artifice. Wagner contrasts these complicated poems with short, clean, pieces that offer a kind of breathing space for the reader.
Not to be mistaken for trivial, the linguistic tightness of these poems
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