The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture.
His poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Fence , West Branch , Boston Review , Prelude , Denver Quarterly , and the Best American Experimental Writing anthology..
About the Author Logan Fry is a poet who lives in Austin, Texas and teaches writing at Texas State University.
In Fry\'s hands, language is rendered a visceral and sensual material, forming poems that are both deeply felt philosophical inquiries and wildly playful exercises of wit.
Fry utilizes a Marxist lens to scrutinize and reinvent the use of language.
In spiraling explorations of rhetoric, these poems allow language to break from its prescribed structures, and instead, it becomes a gestural embrace of feeling and being.
What was once a tool of capitalistic alienation now serves as material for building connections.
These are poems from the edge, pulling language out from its failure and into a fervent interrogation of its possibilities.
Fry sees that language becomes a tool for alienation and uses the poems in Harpo Before the Opus to excavate paths back to tenderness.
Here we find Harpo, reaching into the frustrated endpoint of language to find a method for its resurrection.
Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility.
The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture
