OS - Softcover

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "The relentless creaking, whistling, howling, and ultimately devouring power of the American jungles comes through in virtually every one of these poems. In the great tradition of Latin American poets who've striven to sensually and intelligently sing of the terrible passage to regeneration, Harrison (adept and hip to that tradition) adds a new element: memory buffer overrun of historical consciousness. Continually refreshing our memory through a wild "real-time" syntax, OS neither gets snowed in by the Northern Obsession of perception for perception's sake (as ever-redeeming spirit), nor swamped by the Symbolist Ritualisms of a pre-lapsarian South. Could this be bio-conductivity's first run at poetry?"-Rodrigo Toscano. Roberto Harrison grew up in Panama and Delaware, and has lived in several locations across the United States.

A poet, essayist, and visual artist, Roberto Harrison is the author of BICYCLE (Noemi Press, 2015), OS (Subpress, 2006), COUNTER DAEMONS (Litmus Press, 2006), and of the recent chapbook Bridge of the World (cannot exist, 2011). With Andrew Levy he published and edited Crayon magazine from 1997 to 2008. He currently publishes and edits The Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives and works in Milwaukee with his wife, the poet Brenda Cardenas.