Poetry. The Area of Sound Called the Subtone, Gordon's second full-length book, won the 2004 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Claudia Rankine. Rankine writes, "Noah Eli Gordon is a master of the shift between an epigrammatic and aphoristic line. Each utterance is a glance that implodes rhetorical strategies so spectacularly that the spray of intelligence that lingers in this reader's mind is not much different from a cooling shower from an illegally opened fire hydrant. Witty, vivid, and very, very vital, Gordon has entered a higher frequency"-Claudia Rakine.
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About the Author:
Noah Eli Gordon is an American poet, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1975. Gordon was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver. His work has appeared in numerous national and international journals and magazines.
Review:
"Gordon's work fuses the risky linguistics of language poetry with a fresh, lyrical ambience that results in hyper-surrealistic prose poems."
--Ray González, The Bloomsbury Review
"In the shatter of each successive frame of reference, we hear amassing a sensually pitched cycle of resonances, which enlarge our receptivity to the physical, the phenomenal properties of language, and which engage in relational patterning beyond the confines of logic and the trajectories we expect meaning to follow. Such an "area of sound" tests the mind's resources, but in so doing enlarges our own adaptive capacity to use language to press the parameters of reality."
--Rusty Morrison, Traffic
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- PublisherAhsahta Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0916272818
- ISBN 13 9780916272814
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages124
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