Answer by Mark DuCharme

“Excuse me, what was the question,” Mark DuCharme asks coyly in this in this, his fourth collection. Yet don’t expect any easy answers, because these edgy lyrics aren’t about to give them. Instead, the book presents a “reflecting, sexy discourse,” a poetics of often intimate response, an entanglement with the phenomenal world which insists always on the pleasure of reading as a value in its own right.

Enter a shimmering, wavering, vacillating, crinkly reality, the mysterious acrobatic disjointing of what you thought you knew. Enter Mark DuCharme’s Answer, where the self-evident succumbs to the agnostic as a wizardly lyric unpins certainty. Brilliantly unpredictable, these poems divine by assemblage of a familiar quotidian and set us wondering.

—Maureen Owen

Mark DuCharme is the author of The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox, 2007), Infinity Subsections (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004) and Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw, 2002). The Found Titles Project was published electronically in 2009 by Ahadada (www.ahadadabooks.com). The latest of his many chapbooks is The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007). He lives, works in and teaches near Boulder, Colorado.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 104 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-053-8

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