Author

Quasha, George

American poet, artist, and musician, born in White Plains, New York. With artist Susan Quasha he founded Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York. His books include Somapoetics, Ainu Dreams and, of the nine books in his unique genre “preverbs” over twenty-five years, Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Hearing Other, and the forthcoming Hilaritas Sublime. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Essays and Philosophy

postPata prepositions afield contemporary

George Quasha

This essay explores how experimental poetics can unsettle fixed identities, disrupt habitual structures of thought, and reconceive language as an open-ended field of relational becoming. Its significance for contemporary art lies in its resistance to the instrumental rationality that governs both capitalist production and cultural consumption, proposing instead a poiesis grounded in indeterminacy, reciprocal attention, and the ceaseless transformation of the relations between artist, artwork, and reader.

  • poetics
  • philosophy
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Poetry

Five Poems from Genius Foci and Hilaritas Sublime contemporary

George Quasha

Five poems from “Genius Foci,” the seventh series in the book Hilaritas Sublime (preverbs) (forthcoming, Marsh Hawk Press: 2027). A line stands back from the life it is already inside, and the thing—bird, stone, word—says more than it has to say.

  • poetry
  • contemporary
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