Christophe Casamassima

Quietude = qui  etude: the study of the who , and who's studying it motivates this marvelous book, full of sharp moves based on acute attention to language.  At times directly honoring his sources­-- Jabès, Creeley­--and at times indirectly quoting many others from Joyce to Cendrars  to Lezama Lima, Casamassima proves himself a worthy inheritor of the postmodern tradition of writing that inscribes (and in doing so, refuses) its own impossibility. - Cole Swensen