Active Reception Old Business

Active Reception Old BusinessNoah Ross A vibrant work of lyric, conceptual, and confessional poetic modes pitched to enact a queer politics of liberation. Active Reception opens to the world around us through its myriad life formsas a book of bottoming, queer kin, and a history of letters that thinks through a mode of writing from the bottom.

a thing for drying wet spots

this is poetry which exacts the logical consequence of philosophy

It was Martial who first used the term ‘plagiarism’ in its modern sense as a kind of literary theft

with a specially commissioned introductory essay by Harold Bloom

*we’ve got any milk

bringing together whatever’s needed in her to approach to the subject—whether the paratactic tactics of poetry

[…] Een absoluut hoogtepunt uit de Nederlandstalige lyriek van de 20ste eeuw

full of messy

afgewisseld met oproepen over ijsberen

The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a tumultuous sea of fractured facts

where language is both god’s first gift to humankind and the cadaver in which the sacred father decays with his mortal creation

Rakim to Rick Ross to Rae Sremmurd