Andy Weaver is the author of two previous books of poetry: were the bees (NeWest, 2005) and gangson (NeWest, 2011). He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at York University. His home life is dominated by the rule of ones: one wife, one son, one cat, one dog, and one house plant. All are lovely.
"Andy Weaver creates art amidst the artifice of attempts to
linguistically and conceptually capture the "now." Through an
innovative spectral poetics, he shapes the shards of this contested
cultural space of competing appetites and polarized political
prisms that defines so much of the this-ness of contemporary
capitalism. In this, this anarchic collage of diffracted histories
and alphabetic matrices, he finds the Kantian sublime in the
muscles of the human forearm, he finds Pliny the Elder telling his
fanboy stories of the Phoenicians, he discovers that "The whole
point of Batman is to take our attention away from all the Bruce
Waynes of the world." This is hilarious, chilling, and highly
resourceful poetry always on the move after its elusive target.
Nobody breaks things and puts them back together like Andy Weaver.
Read this." -- Adam Dickinson-- "Adam Dickinson"
"In his accomplished third collection, Andy Weaver attempts to
poeticize the unpresentable. Looking for poetry that pushes the
limits of the lexicon, but never loses sight of the ludic? this is
it." -- Stephen Cain-- "Stephen Cain"
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