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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Will Alexander Will Alexander was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and he grew up around the violence that has plagued this area for decades. A poet and visual artist, he has updated the alchemy of surrealist vision (found in such poets as Aimé Césaire and Raymond Roussel) to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. Alexander's writing represents a complex distillation of images from many fields, including botany, astronomy, psychology, physiology, mysticism, and history. Alexander's most recent titles include Sunrise in Armageddon (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006) and Exobiology As Goddess (Manifest Press, 2005). "His work resembles no one's, and is instantly recognizable. In part, he is an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive. He is probably the only African-American poet to take Aimé Césaire as a spiritual father (and behind Césaire, Artaud and Lautreamont). But he is also, like Hugh MacDiarmid—a writer of utterly different temperament—a poet whose ecstasy derives from the scientific description of the stuff and the workings of the world." - Eliot Weinberger

from Above the Human Nerve Domain Will Alexander

No he is not an urn singer nor does he carry on rapport with negative forces within extinction he is the brush fire singer who projects from his heart the sound of insidious subduction of blank anomaly as posture of opaque density as ash he distanced from prone ventriloqual stammer from flesh & habit & drought

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