Decoherence - Softcover

Pritts, Nate

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ISBN 10: 0983074798 ISBN 13: 9780983074793

Publisher: 42 Miles Press, 2017

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Poetry. Quiet, introspective, and darkly comedic, Nate Pritts' DECOHERENCE gathers strength like a giant wave. Pritts' syntax declares an argument for his style that calls up Frank O'Hara in its blend of playfulness with the slow machinations of the speaker's psyche.

At some moments elegant, lyrical, and seamless; at others limping and broken, DECOHERENCE nevertheless swims along purposefully across leaps and omissions, navigating both tension and ease in a series of emotional risks.

"Reading Nate Pritts' new collection DECOHERENCE, I am reminded of the phrase 'do you see what I am saying?' Although the images in the poems vary, light is one element that runs throughout: 'Everything, it seems, is just waves of light' and 'I know that the only gift we can give to someone else / is context for all this light' and 'In morning light we are finally / cleansed of happening.' In fact, the final word is, literally, light. Enter these stanzas with Nate and see what he's saying. Be illuminated by DECOHERENCE."—Kimiko Hahn

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About the Author:

Nate Pritts is the author of eight books of poetry, including Post Human (A-Minor Books, 2016) and The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon, 2010), and more than a dozen chapbooks including Life Event (Artifact Press), Sky Poems (Greying Ghost Press), BIG BRIGHT SUN (BlazeVOX books, 2010), SENSATIONAL SPECTACULAR (BlazeVOX books, 2007) and DECOHERENCE (42 Miles Press, 2017) . His poems, and writings about poetry, have been published in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, Writers Digest and many other places. He is also the Director and Founding Editor of H_NGM_N Books (b. 2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph 'zine. Pritts is Associate Professor at Ashford University. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York state.

Review:

The poetry in my new book, DECOHERENCE, seeks to complete a working, a binding, to reconcile the abstract logic of technoscience within the soul of life, to bring a sense of humanist wisdom to the ceaseless flow of data all as a way of getting us to recognize the sacred space we already inhabit. The poetry is both sequential and cumulative but remains ultimately unresolved, like all good stories, like all rewarding journeys. It is a perpetual encounter bringing us closer to the very heart of the world. To do this, I snuck into the camps of my enemy and stole the tropes of big data, deep information and wired interconnectivity downloaded directly from the accelerated circulatory system of the internet. Using an open, at times primitivist, line, I worked to create a dialogue between the affective and the effective, between human wisdom and mathematical science, in order to restore meaning to language and thus to our lives. The poetry is carved from the air, through a process of inspiration, and intuitively shaped to enact the movements of consciousness, the very action of humanity. I wanted to decipher the codes standing in our way and allow connection to flourish. What the process of this poetry did for me, and what I hope it can enact for any reader, is to enliven the circuit we all travel as we construct and deconstruct identity, as we try to find ourselves, as we seek to balance a drive toward coherence with a fumbling sense that the dominant logic available, a type of pragmatic instrumentality, is abrupt and incomplete, destroys the living it tries to describe. --Excerpt from Engines of Decoherence by Nate Pritts

Tenderness has force, a lesson few poets ever seem to learn. Nate Pritts has it down totally. I love his loyalty to the incidental, the moments where our truest feelings reveal themselves. He reminds me a bit of Joseph Ceravolo he takes the bewilderment that we so often feel and he turns it into a spell devised to heal us. There is a heroism in that, without posture or grandiosity. Pritts is always unpredictable, receptive, in flux, yet always decisive in opening the next door. --DAVID RIVARD, author of Standoff

Reading Nate Pritts new collection DECOHERENCE, I am reminded of the phrase do you see what I am saying? Although the images in the poems vary, light is one element that runs throughout: Everything, it seems, is just waves of light and I know that the only gift we can give to someone else / is context for all this light and In morning light we are finally / cleansed of happening. In fact, the final word is, literally, light. Enter these stanzas with Nate and see what he s saying. Be illuminated by DECOHERENCE . --KIMIKO HAHN, author of Brain Fever

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