Stops (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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Joel Sloman’s Stops is a difficult but often amusing book of poems. Sloman is a postmodernist poet who consciously avoids the usual coherent and rational structures of earlier poetry. In the book’s preface, Denise Levertov claims that in his postmodernist method, “Sloman neither jumps nor falls over that brink: the means by which he stretches our expectations of language and continually surprises us are not erosions of grammar and syntax, but swifter adjacencies than we are used to, even after decades of familiarity with the dictum, one perception must lead immediately to...
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