Tardos, Anne: Nine

Nine by Anne Tardos (BlazeVOX Books, paperback) Publication Date: August 15, 2015 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. "What glee in the Nine, this tour de force of genius trickster complexity, 'all about equipping poetry.' And Anne Tardos does this accouterment-ing like a Buddhist deity with many arms and heads. 'Rub together two neurons and you have a mind' and play with NINE and you have a rich compendium of unsurpassed wild multi-lingual-mental invention and words stomping around as richly palpable (non gendered!) masters of the universe. I got so refreshed by the wit and tenderness I couldn't stop."—Anne Waldman "Anne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have enlightened us for several decades now, emerges in NINE as an innovator of new forms as a vehicle for work that incorporates, like all great poetry, the fullest range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. I am struck, as rarely happens, by this combination of form & content, each a powerful