Three Suite by Christophe Casamassima

In Christophe Casamassima’s Three Suite, recombination and erasure make visible the edges of an intelligently empathetic poetics of rediscovery. These poems are indebted to their found texts, but are always looking forward to the new line that is made possible only by way of procedural mapping. Casamassima skillfully weaves together a landscape in which the poem becomes total texture, where lines like “wrist gestures thought” pause to give us a poem that we hear “around sound” — we hear what is outside or beyond those edges of known sound. The resolutely archival comes into relief as the restlessly associative; these poems are constantly shifting and unfolding bits of known language. As they “think in quotations,” they think beyond those markings of authorship, out into a freshly made vocabulary of assemblage.

—Julia Bloch

See also :
Christophe Casamassima’s joys: a catalogue of disappointments

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