We are living in the future NOW: it is our unique way of experiencing the present. “It’s all science fiction now” – a realization made simultaneously by Allen Ginsberg, Arthur C. The preface of this collection, however, is prescient of his concerns in later works like “The Cry at Zero” where he asks "What good is poetry at a time like this?" I’ll quote the preface of "Science Fiction" in its entirety. “Science Fiction” is perhaps his last collection that directly experiments with the genre before he began to focus on how poetics should be more involved with current political situations. There’s even a handbook.Įarlier in his career, Andrew Joron was known for writing poetry for science fiction magazines, finding ways to integrate poetic avant-garde techniques with the genre. Of course, there are over a million links when you type in “science fiction” and “poetry”: links to contests, conventions, and essays that attempt to define sci-fi poetry (It’s speculative, it must have narrative, and “SFP fans know it when they see it.”). I’ve been curious about poetry that adopts genre narratives, especially sci-fi poetry, although I haven’t had a chance to do any serious research. I have not gotten my hands on Andrew Joron’s latest 2008 collection, The Sound Mirror, so I’d like to push his older collection, Science Fiction, published in 1992.
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