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POETRY
100 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.05)
Publication Date: March 2018
ISBN 9781931824743
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2018)
In this strange, funny, and fast-paced book, How to Flit, flitting is something like the opposite of counting: skipping from one phrasal unit to the next, without accumulation or consistent measure. These poems are filled with numbers, but they are not mathematical; the lines feel intuitively arranged, and they make a kind of intuitive sense. The unit of composition is surprise: the poems flit between discursive registers quickly. The dominant tone is one of dense colloquial erudition, although glimmers of many other recognizable and unrecognizable discourses continually interrupt. At once sculpted, ambient, and humorous, How to Flit is an interesting example of post-Language collage-based writing that uses a wide variety of source material to create odd and often beautiful linguistic textures. But more than that, it’s a great read.— Steve Zultanski
Mark Francis Johnson is the author of Can of Human Heat, Treatise on Luck, and After Such Knowledge, as well as numerous shorter works. He lives in Philadelphia, where he sells antiquarian books and rare records out of his small shop, Hiding Place.