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The immensity, breadth and dexterity of Three Markations is not to be missed. If you can handle the over 600 pages, you will have climbed a mountaintop overlooking the maelstrom of the 21st century. Herein lies a network of thought branching out, congealing, exploding, suspended in time like a large photograph.
Evan Reynolds, on Three Markations to Ward Her Figure, American Book Review
Thilleman has a music all his own, sometimes lyrical, sometimes dissonant; pretty consistently surprising. I’ll admit “root-cellar” always sets me thinking of WCW’s “cat” poem—you know, the one with the jam-closet & so forth. But Root-Cellar is very un-Williamsesque: more an assertion—nay, a demonstration—that ruminative, considerative poetry is still possible.
Mark Scroggins, on Root-Cellar to Riverine
The waverings, flurries, gaps and gusts of phrases, by turns recondite and plain, harsh and eloquent, compose a deeply credible kind of spiritual music, appropriately broken, but alive with despair and exaltation. Thilleman pushes composition to the brink of what is, and words are still there, and the promise of things hidden ...
Joseph Donahue, on The New Frequency
No single note can contain or describe this work, nor is there a quiet sameness which will lull one beyond question. Instead there is a composed concentration in the center of calamitous movement—movement which embodies inquiry, which listens as a means of locomotion, transferring setting to sound, venturing out along many circumstances.
Laynie Browne, on Three Mouths
Thilleman began to attract attention with his sequence collection Wave-Run and has continued to mine secrets and depths inherent in language, but often ignored. The magic of words—that they have lives of their own beyond their obvious power to communicate information …
Theodore Enslin, on Wave-Run
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Publisher: Madhat, Inc.
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-952335-94-5