Longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Big Other Prize
Swensen’s poetry embodies a form of poetic, political, and ontological guerrilla warfare—it embodies a commitment to other possibilities of thought, of language, of the world.
--Jean-Philippe Cazier in Diacritik
“Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice … Swensen is returning us to a kind of first poetics, a prima poieia, in which word and world are co-creative and mutually flourishing.
—Dan Beachy-Quick
Link to the book
Reviews:
https://tearsinthefence.com/2023/10/24/and-and-and-by-cole-swensen-shearsman-books/
https://www.shearsman.com/store/Cole-Swensen-And-And-And-p542404464
related interview:
https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2023/11/four-questions-for-cole-swensen/
First printed in Martin Corless-Smith “Free Poetry” series; that earlier version of the book can be accessed here: