The Laboratory of Time

<p><em>The Laboratory of Time and other cutup poems</em> Peter Wortsman's third collection of experiments in the form lets time be told in the way we live it sometimes stretching a second into seeming eternity sometimes compressing eternity into a second. The first part titled The True Glue comprises recycled assemblages of words cut out of the newspaper that make a newfangled poetic sense. The second part titled The Five Books is an admittedly unorthodox retelling of biblical narrative the poetic sap and zap of it extracted by means of a vertical transcription.</p><p>Exhalations burdened with meaning they are forever being uttered stuttered and forgotten trashed and mulched to fertilize new formulations. What else is a cutup poem after all or any kind of poem for that matter but a wild flower sprouting out of the dirt!</p>