Lucky Shadows

This massive volume of poems collects much of Wilson's poetry that has not previously appeared in a book. Selected by mIEKAL aND. 'Peter Lamborn Wilson is a poet to read at length, preferably under a favorite tree near a flowing body of water, fully prepared to ignore all sense of imposed duty. And happily the work comes in some quantity in Lucky Shadows, enough to drive home the view that imagination itself is the ur-anarchist. It takes time and text to outfit an unexampled reality, a temporary autonomous verbal path leading to yet another zone of possible free life emergence. The mind- and side-splitting intensity of verbal assemblage comprises an under-linguality, a speaking/writing reality harnessing our hopes, fears and unnamable aspirations. It inspires further anticipation conceived as living precariously on the magical verge of new world irruption. Lamenting our losses seems suddenly to lay a foundation for gaining the impossible, the kind you welcome in your dreams. Sure,