CRISS CROSS
by P. Inman
"Criss cross is a tour of the process of navigating the realms of experimentation, witness, and critique, an invitation to participatory poetic locution. You, as reader, are given the gift of transience."
- Diane Ward
"By fully semanticizing the so-called nonsemantic features of language, Inman creates a dialectic of the recuperable & the unreclaimable, where what cannot be claimed is nonetheless most manifest."
- Charles Bernstein
"Inman's work is as unsettling and resistant to habitual comprehension as the ambiguous figure and similarly raises questions about the nature of perception. Like Beckett, Inman challenges his reader/audience. . .to consider what is fundamental, presence or absence."
- Joan Retallack
"The type of experimentation characterizing his work. . .situates him within the tradition of zaum, the 'transrational' poetry of the Russian futurists Khlebnikov and Kruchenyk, and constitutes one of the most radical examples of the utopianization of language today...."
- Estban Pujals Gesali
"[Inman's] poetry lies in how this language becomes known--in the contemplative strategies it proposes--and in what it becomes known as. Inman's poetry an emblem of poetry, of how it sets on a page, the page in a book, how a book opens, before one's eyes and in the mind--and how the mind in relation to its knowns becomes material."
- Ben Friedlander