The Laboratory of Time - Softcover

Wortsman, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196231605X ISBN 13: 9781962316057

Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Laboratory of Time, and other cutup poems, Peter Wortsman's third collection of experiments in the form, lets time be told in the way we live it, sometimes stretching a second into seeming eternity, sometimes compressing eternity into a second. The first part, titled "The True Glue," comprises recycled assemblages of words cut out of the newspaper that make a newfangled poetic sense. The second part, titled "The Five Books," is an admittedly unorthodox retelling of biblical narrative, the poetic sap and zap of it extracted by means of a vertical transcription.

Exhalations burdened with meaning, they are forever being uttered, stuttered and forgotten, trashed and mulched to fertilize new formulations. What else is a cutup poem after all, or any kind of poem for that matter, but a wild flower sprouting out of the dirt!

About this title

About the Author

Author of work in multiple modes, including fiction, plays, poetry, and translation from the German, Peter Wortsman was a fellow of the Fulbright (1973) and Thomas J. Watson Foundations (1974), and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2010). His work has garnered a Beard's Fund Short Story Award and an Independent Publishers Book Award, among other honors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196231605X
• ISBN 13: 9781962316057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72