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“it may perhaps be allowable to introduce a methodological nomenclature, applicable to the various forms of suspended water.... (Luke Howard 1803)
Murmur
“Murmur collects an astonishing array of stories into language as a terra incognita occasioning the uncanny and always troubled confluence of the subject, the bodies it inhabits and the linguistic remainder. Mullen animates narrative at the level of its basic semantic pulse. Never since Beckett has the unnamed been so chilling...” --Steve McCaffery Subject
“Subject is a richly textured treat for ear, eye, and mind; it’s a work that I never felt I got to the bottom of: like the sea, the poems kept shifting and changing with each view.” --Charles Bernstein The Tales of Horror
"A brilliant, utterly original, fully realized work that wickedly out-tropes horror's cliches and devices.... wonderfully immediate, making an exaggerated, rollicking introduction to many of the pre-occupations, rhetorics and methods of experimental poetry." --Publishers Weekly, August 1999 The Surface
National Poetry Series selection After I Was Dead
“It may be possible to recover language in the space of poetry. Laura Mullen’s second book of poems, After I Was Dead—bound to the mad and irreconcilable desire for honesty—strives for this recovery while relentlessly questioning its own motives at every turn.”—Rain Taxi |
Forthcoming work in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, edited by Laynie Browne, Caroline Bergvall & Vanessa Place: Les Figues Press (2011). Recent work in Cerise Press, New American Writing, Ghost Town, Action Yes! and the Colorado Review...
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