Michael Gottlieb
MOSTLY CLEARING
by Michael Gottlieb
If Michael Gottlieb’s language is familiar, it is because he places his voice in conversation with generations of New York’s poets, pop culture, and commercial branding. Everything from O’Hara-esque exclamations and Ashberian experiments with syntax to Looney Tunes and commercial airliners’ rehearsed landing speech….
DEAR ALL
by Michael Gottlieb
Michael Gottlieb's Dear All strikes a note of change to both Gottlieb's style and his intentions to change society by holding up a mirror to it. The resulting social vanitas in Dear All's short lines make us think that the world might be different than we think it is.
“In the continuing battle between life and death at the end of the century, Michael Gottlieb's Gorgeous Plunge (poems) declares itself on the side of life. As a phenomenal account of self-consciousness within structures it can only partially authorize, Michael Gottlieb's work addresses the broad horizons of utopoia, the chilling defiles of the economy, and the scrutable immediacies of everyday life.”
- Barrett Watten
LOST AND FOUND
by Michael Gottlieb
“Lost and Found by Michael Gottlieb stresses the 9/11 poetry genre to the limit. In “The Dust” he lists with clenched jaw items found in the rubble of the downed Towers, moving from computer terminals and memos to the human side, driving through his list with all the impact of the most intense lyric poem….”
NINETY-SIX TEARS
by Michael Gottlieb
I. The little death, first. There is no such thing as an emergency in the poetry world. Trained on. Like a third armpit. The advantage of the cordless model. You went and had all this shipped in. Promoting camaraderie. And didn't think to ask me if I needed any notions. DutyTour in a 'hot.' Deep enough so no one would notice.