“There Are No Nouns to Ensnare Me”: Decolonization of Identity in Will Alexander’s Poetics
摘要
In a 2013 interview, Will Alexander says: “When language is felt as a living intelligence, it quickens as one internally develops.” Later in the same conversation, he calls the experience of being perpetually attuned to language’s spontaneity “Poetic Yoga,” a notion he muses over in his 1998 poem “Above the Human Nerve Domain”: