Diary as Sin

Will Alexander is known to the literary world as the avant garde poet who continually defies easy classification. Though a Los Angeles native, his work resembles Breton, Paz, Cesaire, or Gascoyne more than anything in contemporary US poetics. Even such comparisons are glib as Alexander is that rare voice that must be experienced in its own right. For Harryette Mullen he is a poet whose lexicon, a 'glossary of vertigo,' might be culled from the complete holdings of a reconstituted Alexandrian library endowed for the next millennium. For Nathaniel Mackey 'his thicketed prose advances lexical ignitions of astounding angle and amplitude'.

Celestial fire modulates through neon fields and aches throughout the lathe of space, animated into dynamic magnetism and psychedelic constellations. Vision explodes through planetary energy as dimensions shift invisibly. Will Alexander is a phenomenal and singular poet, a poet who allows me to leave the abyss of pedestrian sensation and enter a state of mind that thrills me with his animated breath. - Chris Moran, HTML Giant