Will Alexander
Will Alexander—poet, essayist, novelist, short storytelling, creator of tales, playwright, aphorist, visual artist, blurbist when called upon, improvisatory pianist, librettist. Author of 39 books in the afore mentioned genres. 2022 Pulitzer Finalist for Refractive Africa from New Directions. Poet-in-Residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice California. He lives in Los Angeles.
Surrealism having gone beyond itself has encountered a form of unevenness, an impalpable flowing into a wider arc as utopian sigil. The higher state seems at present to endemically invoke rise into a celestial spectrum. Not as brazen subscription to prior tenet, but tenet as mantric higher maze.
Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and musician. Among his publications are Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021/Granta, 2022), which was named a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and won the California Book Award for Poetry, The Combustion Cycle (Roof, 2021), Across the Vapor Gulf (New Directions, 2017), and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009).
Will Alexander, poet, novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, visual artist, and pianist, has written nearly 40 books in the above-mentioned genres, with forthcoming amounts along the way. He is currently Poet-in-Residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California.