The Amputation Artist

At the crux of The Amputation Artist, Michael Broek escorts Walt Whitman on a poetic homage throughout northern Jersey and NYC, commenting on architecture, culture, and identity to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. These poems echo Williams’ “no idea but in things” and Olson’s “projective verse.”

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At the crux of The Amputation Artist Michael Broek escorts Walt Whitman on a poetic homage throughout northern Jersey and NYC, commenting on architecture, culture, identity to Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. These poems echo Williams’ “no idea but in things” and Olson’s “projective verse.” I keep returning to Nathaniel Mackey’s “Andoumboulou,” and how the disfigured can mirror language tangential to the body whole. Through the amputee Broek examines the body electric, and these poems sing, sing a body shaped by (US).

—Randall Horton is the author of Pitch Dark Anarchy

About the Author

Michael Broek is the author of Refuge/es, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award for poetry, forthcoming in 2015 from Alice James Books, and two chapbooks, The Logic of Yoo, from Beloit Poetry Journal, which has been adapted to a staged reading, and The Amputation Artist, from ELJ Publications. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in places such as The American Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Literary Imagination, Blackbird, Fourteen Hills, and others. He has been a New Jersey State Arts Council Fellow in Poetry and Bread Loaf Writers Conference Returning Contributor Scholar. He edits the journal Tran(s)tudies and is managing editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College and a PhD in American Literature from Essex University, UK. He lives and teaches in New Jersey.

The Amputation Artist

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