Compression & Purity

1. This book follows last year's New Directions book, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, which has raised Will Alexander's profile considerably. 2. Alexander is very much an avowed surrealist, whose work is known and respected in that community. 3. Being African American, Alexander can also be marketed to some extent as a writer of color (perhaps under the Negritude banner). 4. Alexander is well known to academics and his work has been written on extensively. 5. Blurb confirmed from Jerome Rothenberg. Also pursuing Harriette Mullen, Alden Neilson, Eliot Weinberger, and Clayton Eshleman.