A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself - Paperback

by Will Alexander (Author)

A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself explores extra-dimensional states of being that place into the praxis of language a natural yoga. It is a meditation that seeks to alter planetary pressures that continue to accrue during this protracted stage of late capital. The essay form is a provisional structural device that ranges from the supra-conscious, descending from above and mingling in one's neural registration with energies that roil and ascend from subconscious states, so that the cognitive is magically energized as a contribution to an overall accuracy via the history of ideas. There, one no longer registers oneself as an author that instigates text as delimited opinion. Therefore, the reader, by the very fact of his or her engagement with the text, is invaded by an invisible current that supersedes quotidian context and its concerns via topical engagement. Such a state allows other considerations to transpire.

Author Biography

Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, pianist, and author of over 30 volumes. His collection Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture (2013) was awarded an American Book Award. His honors include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. Alexander was also a 2022 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.