All the Tricks of Language

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All the Tricks of Language</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Marc Vincenz has indeed mastered all the tricks: lyric rhetorical metaphoric 'the tinkle of irony' drama comedy-pages filled with people starry as themselves meeting here on the other side of history as well as this side: 'the world intertwined with the unworld' 'an ocean of unimaginable secrets.' </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All the Tricks of Language</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is fertile and carnivalesque grabbing your attention from the very start. Vincenz writes like no one else vitally original with perhaps Stevens Pound Kafka and Calvino in the background along with a handful of Language poets.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Words and phrases bubble up from a magma forming a molted coherence a dynamic structure a natural order. The meaning Vincenz creates is as far from prose reduction as possible making for 'a provision of epiphanies'. Language itself is a realm where narrative digs in and picks up. People float up and fade rise elsewhere. Indeed 'if we were following all the rules of scripture by now all would be dead.' Instead all is very much alive. The scripture created is deeply ironic while engaged at the same time. Irony creates continuity new meanings and forms to carry them a kind of Hegelian dialectic: 'there's more to the story than that.'</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The mind for example in the poem In a History of Half-light works in the quotidian translating transforming thus making it more of itself. This is a dynamic gnomic world a full-bodied manifesto: 'Everything which is transforming/will continue.' I am convinced from the beginning and 'follow the carrot in [in the poet's] hand'. The only stick there is in the manner of the Zen master is a sharp tap to the side of the head: Wake up! </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> A deeply impressive engaging supremely original work of art.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Brian Swann</span></p><p></p>