in the dawn of her smile, the mystery of god's holy love is revealed...
Jack Norton returns with his most formally daring collection yet: one that cuts language apart to find what's hiding underneath it.
In Glorious. Blank. White., the Emmy Award-winning author and critically acclaimed poet takes up the cut-up technique: the disorienting, collage-born method pioneered by the Dadaists in the 1920s and later sharpened into a literary weapon by William S. Burroughs. The result is a collection that feels fractured and whole at once: fragments of prayer, longing, and devotion reassembled into something that reads like scripture rewritten by a man talking to himself at 3 a.m.
These are poems about the sacred hiding inside the ordinary... a smile, a blank page, the silence before revelation. Raw, deep, and unflinching, they're typewriter-honest lines that don't explain themselves so much as detonate quietly on the page.
Novelist Nick Tosches called Norton "my hope for the future of America." Glorious. Blank. White. is proof he meant it.
For readers of Burroughs, Bukowski, and anyone drawn to poetry that breaks its own rules to tell the truth, this is a collection to read once for the disorientation, and again for the clarity underneath it.
Perfect for readers of: William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and fans of experimental/cut-up poetry looking for something spiritually strange and formally alive.
