Active Reception

- Reviews -

"Noah Ross' Active Reception is a corporeal tapestry, a verso clench of membrane. Figuring the asshole not as absence or empty voicelessness, but as a form of the body' s narrative capability, Ross articulates gossip, disease, joy and dissolution in mucal blossom, snapped taut by typewriter ribbon. For him, the void is affective trap as much as it is a path of material discernment-a space where balances of labor, erotics, and power are liquidated in the queer mingling of blood and come as much as they' re made discrete, parceled out in a series of uneasy structural relations. Both a sensuous act of objection and an art of sensing oneself as object, what Ross posits is no ascetic ideology nor wasteful orgy, but a true perversity of politics. Active Reception mirrors the slick ways in which we absorb and inhibit the violence of capitalist and carceral logics. How we love each other; an airless density, its thin ecstasy of paper cut. I can' t, I gag for it. "Trisha Low"The phenomenology of bottoming has rarely if ever received as brilliant a sounding or as voracious an investigation as Noah Ross gives the subject in Active Reception. Encountering this sense-expanding poem, this radical recital, I' m given delirious incentive to rethink my own relation to bodies, inside and out. Head-rushes and heart-rushes of affinity, of consanguinity, and a flushed sense of rekindled possibilities (for art, politics, sexuality) are the happy consequences, for this reader, of taking in the full measure of Ross' s call to action. The book' s visual and prosodic inventiveness matches its hot insistence on writing the body accurately, musically, with an appetite for the irregular mark and the unrestricted (yet tightly measured) flood. "-Wayne Koestenbaum"Looking for a biblio high? Open this book. Watch an erotic, operatic, love-prone blossoming of architectonic, choreographic, historically futurist, empathically political, deeply liturgical, intellectually juicy, gravely hilarious, serious play. Active Reception voices and graphs spirits and humors flowing from pre-Chaucer to post-Spenser to present tensile Noah (Ross), thanks to whom-at last!- CINAEDORUM CARISSIMORUM can come out as pansy dear via Google Translate. Ross' s ecstatic lexicon activates gorgeously erudite choruses ' [in trappings at the limit]. ' They sing neon nights and daze in ' a brilliance of clamoring. ' "-Joan Retallack

- Author Bio -

Noah Ross is a bookseller, editor, and poet based in Berkeley, CA. Noah is the author of Swell, and an editor of Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects, and Mo0on/IO with Lindsay Choi.

- Full Details -

Status:	Active
ISBN-13:	9781643620398
Published:	15 Apr 2021
Published In:	United States
Imprint:	Nightboat Books
Publisher:	Nightboat Books
Format:	Paperback
Height:	203mm
Width:	152mm
Pages:	88

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