Towards the Primeval Lightning Field - Will Alexander

Towards the Primeval Lightning Field by Will Alexander / ISBN 9781933959207 / 107-page paperback from Litmus Press. I don't know how I wound up with this strange book (Surrealist prose poems?) when it first came out in the 90s, but it made a big impression and hence I'm stocking it and Alexander's other books. *** "His work resembles no one's and is instantly recognizable. In part, he is an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive. He is probably the only African-American poet to take Aimé Césaire as a spiritual father...[Alexander] is a poet whose ecstasy derives from the scientific description of the stuff and the workings of the world."—Eliot Weinberger Now available as a second edition with a new preface from the author, Will Alexander's TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD (O Books, 1998) is a work of "vertical philosophy" revealing the strata of cultures and language, like geographical layers seen all at once. These essays comprise Alexander's "search for origins outside the wa