Translation, the Bass Accompaniment: Selected Poems

The bass guitar creates patterns that make music into a visceral experience - they are what infect the body. The poems in Translation, the bass accompaniment: Selected Poems are in dialog with other authors, and here, experimental poetry engages logician Quine, encyclopedic novelist Melville, philosophers Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze, theologian and synthetic philosopher Aquinas, poets Dragomoshchenko, Hejinian, Raworth, Baudelaire, and Celan, Soviet cinematographer Dziga Vertov, video artist Bill Viola, and others.