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This is a book of readings of readings. It is not analysis, it is not a critical discussion, it is not the application of a theory or ideology to texts, but a record of the conscious/unconscious experiences of reading and engaging with that reading. It is an approach I have advocated for decades: that to 'understand' a text, especially one that seems strange or unusual, the best approach is to pay attention to one’s own reactions - somatic, linguistic, visual, etc. - and then to discuss and think about those reactions. Leftwich, in his many volumes and articles about new literatures, has developed this approach better than anyone I know, including myself. It is perfect for the kinds of experimental and avant-garde writing Leftwich both practices and reads, a kind of writing that is opaque to current trends of literary analysis. It is both a guide for potential readers, and an act of love and empathy toward the texts and toward the art of writing and reading them. As he says in a conversation about my chapbook 'shat on a tool', 'Finding meaning isn’t a matter of translating the poem into prose, it’s a matter of paying attention to what the poet is doing with the language'. - John M. BennettLeftwich’s 'magnetic nerve valve of gravity,' his 'cluster of dendrites thinking spacetime' dismantles atoms’ going-once-again-and-again 'cluster of observa' to molecular rewriting’s 'pulsing shifters' for rerouting peptide sequences and reversing rivers, recombining a day’s word orders per moments’ quantum entanglements, 'counting the syllables one more time.' Whether by 'glitched letterforms' or 'paragraph iron,' or whether it’s by Leftwich 'anvil[ing] at least a few of his popcorn brutal,' LUNIC PANZEMES revives the memor[ies] of 'unread conferences of songbirds. - John Crouse
