Shift Gristle by Heller Levinson
Shift Gristle is under-girded by Hinge’s tireless capacity to Seek. Shift Gristle crackles with high aspiration. Contouring the unknown, fleshing-out the Linguistically Undocumented, the under-acknowledged, the hidden, the digitally stifled, this latest Hinge production summons a mind rebellion, a torch toward primordial utterance.
Mist production as poetic matter expulses the cliché ridden subjective “I.” Atmosphere, not narrative, becomes keystone.
Whether conversing with artists such as Matisse, Edward Hopper, Linda Lynch, the philosopher Heidegger, or exploring new modules like “crossfelling encounter,” “shadow,” “grammatical intimate,” Heller persists in his mission to free us from vapid automatisms, to enrapture our residencies on earth.
"Ever thrusting forward, like a dark horse pushing through the currents of complacency so omnipresent in contemporary poetry, Heller Levinson’s work proves revolutionary in its truest meaning: as much as his work matches the experimentation and demanding wildness of some of our best contemporaries, and looks ahead, testing the resiliency and boundaries of his Hinge Theory, Heller Levinson’s poetry also revolves back to the earliest kernels of the verb, to incantation, the steady-pounding feet of the Muses atop Helicon, pure, radiant glossolalia of one regarding the horror and the splendor through smoke, shamanistic and ancient, he remains a universal prophet. In LinguaQuake, words gather on the page like erupting genetic codes in swarms of color, chunks of clay, along with great blazes. He makes more of this brief flash for which we are here—like Bede’s allegory of the sparrow’s flight through a hall, having entered from one darkness, and out through the window into another—than anyone writing today. Heller Levinson is the mystery, incantation, and the golden babble. Read this book. Brace yourself, and spread open for this concupiscence, this arrival.”
Heller Levinson lives in NYC where he studies animal behavior. He has published in over a hundred journals and magazines including Sulfur, Jacket, Hunger, Talisman, First Intensity, Laurel Review, Omega, The Wandering Hermit, Fire (U.K), Alligatorzine, The Jivin' Ladybug, Moria, Woodcoin, etc. His last publications, Jus Saying and Lure were also published by Black Widow Press. He is the originator of Hinge Theory. |