Momentum

<p>Scott Thurston's second Shearsman collection consists of three long sequences of poems and represents a significant development from his first collection <em>Hold</em>. <em>Momentum</em> aims to recuperate what may be had of a lyric tradition refracted through a post-Language sensibility; generating amongst other things responses to Proust Shelley and the experience of dancing. Change and time are intrinsic to the book's accumulative structure and the way in which the line-breaks argue with syntax attempts to show the process the movement of thinking in language in time - not a stream of consciousness but rather more like a weir a wave or a rubble-filled alleyway.</p><p></p>