Invisible World Is in Decline Poems

Rooted in the Modernist tradition of writers like William Carlos Williams and indebted to Canadians like bpNichol, The Invisible World Is In Declineis a philosophical, erotic, and highly personal prose poem. At the same time, it takes on the Postmodern challenges of engaging concerns that extend beyond the autobiographical. Whiteman investigates spiritual crisis, love, and the struggle through language to make sense of what it is to be human in a world where the human seems to be all that is available. The Invisible World Is In Declinepays homage to earlier writers of both the long poem and the impersonal love lyric: Coleridge, Lautreamont, Spicer, and Zukofsky. Responsive to the everyday, the particular, and to the body, Whiteman explores the grand ways in which poetry has come to shape language and experience in the last century. The prose poem form allows for images and music to sometimes predominate over shape and sense in what poet Robert Creeley once called "a wild exultation." In the end, it moves towards a human paradise where love, thought, and language are in perfect attunement, and where poetry can say so.Whiteman, Bruce is the author of 'Invisible World Is in Decline Poems', published 2006 under ISBN 9781550227475 and ISBN 1550227475.