January Machine
By Rob Schlegel
2014
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January Machine is a book-length poem comprised of sonnets and sonnet sequences interrupted by static. Rooted in the modern American moment, this poem seeks to understand the intersection of Whitman's plurality and Oppen's "shipwreck of the singular." In the midst of geographic dislocation, the lyric "I" becomes a place; "I am the I undone, immersed / in perspective," Schlegel writes. "I am an American sigh, a limit / of language, a limit of privilege, / in this excess, a thousand exits."
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Author
Rob Schlegel
Author · 5 books
Rob Schlegel serves as co-editor of The Catenary Press, which is dedicated to publishing long poems. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Jacket2, New American Writing, The Volta, and elsewhere. Born in Portland, Oregon, he has lived most recently in Iowa, Montana, and Washington.
