Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews - Will Alexander

Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews and a Lecture 1991-2007 / ISBN 9780979118975 / 269-page paperback / Edited and with an Introduction by Taylor Brady / Afterword by Andrew Joron / Published by Essay Press. *** One of the most prolific and original figures in the field of contemporary literature, Will Alexander is known worldwide for his arresting explorations of European and Caribbean surrealism, postcolonial history, twentieth-century philosophy, and contemporary scientific theory. Here, Alexander undertakes nothing less than a redefinition of the essay form itself, opening an "artery of twilight" wherein aesthetic, political, historical, social, cultural, scientific, and theoretical discourses often become indistinguishable elements of a holistic investigation into the composition—or, re-composition—of the physical and metaphysical worlds. SINGING IN MAGNETIC HOOFBEAT is an indispensable record of Alexander's thought, and confirms his reputation as one of