Kyle Harvey : Cosmographies

It's always been the matter with poetry posing the question       asking the answer putting the next      opener and shaper Kyle Harvey lets those hidden corners show a flash in the dense      a wink to a world dancing substances       moving poems    — Clark Coolidge   Kyle Harvey’s Cosmographies is a fearless book. In the eponymous opening section he really does take on the origins of time and space, mind and language; he then goes on in “The Alphabet That Never Recovers” to channel early humans’ experiences of language, thought, and spirituality; and finally in “Western Suites,” gets personal, if you can say that such free-swinging and wide open language is ever exactly personal in any usual sense. poems/go, taking/with them only/what we let go of./Whole oceans of meaning/revealed./ Don’t ask me/what I mean/Don’t tell me/what you mean./ Meaning/is the murder/ of process. Indeed!   — Norman Fischer   A humility born of contemplation of the cosmos underwrites the poems of Kyle Harvey’