As iZ - Tyrone Williams - Acknowledgments

Sep 28, 2026

As iZ by Tyrone Williams presents a politically charged, sonorous poetic project that excavates the roots of contemporary conflict and cultural stalemate. Praised for its micro-tonic attention to symbolic significance, the collection moves through altered geopolitical and historical realms, linking market forces, crises, and lived geographies. The book gathers syncretic, differential topologies of land and water, staging provocative rites and archives that collide, disrupt, and reassemble meaning into unsettling connections.

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CategoryLiterature

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Pages132

Reading Time3 h 23 min

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TYRONE WILLIAMS Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/asiz0000will PRAISE FOR As iZ In times of dire word-thirst due to a malabsorption of History's artifacts,we turn to TyroneWilliamss codes &keys to crack the truly 'alter’political realms.Master of micro-tonicexcavations of symbolic significance,Williams pares down the logical fripperies of Civilizationsintentionalities.There,neicher the world-out-there nor the world-in-here predominate,butrather an intermundia of"belaborated"rites &rituals sound out some of the rarest and mostprovocative poetry of our times. RoDRIGo ToscANO,AUTHOR OF ExPLOSION RocKs SPRINGFIELD As iZmaps a global buzz or buzz-saw's path,one that links usall.Riding wave after wave of anEnglish that's always alert and deeply alive,it reaches far into more than its poet's self and,witha ferocious poignancy,rises up out of chat reach.Market forces meet worldwide crises;bodiesof knowledge are salvaged and mined;Middle Easts blur into Middle Americas—and Africasinto the Sea of Everything.Restlessly political,variously musical,Tyrone Williamss poems makebeautiful,disturbing connections. PETER COLE,AUTHOR OF HYMNS &QUALMS:NEW AND SELECTED PoEMS AND TRANSLATIONS Hap of what would,were u to click on Seth,or Thoth?Gates of Hell,heavenly oasis,A'rafsplitting the difference.Tyrone Williamss syncretic ex(ed)-index excurses on differentialtopologies of land and water,"here"and not-here,in b&w,in choler.Collidescopic darkcornucopia—uncollocation of exergues from uncompleted X-fers—AsiZ deretrofits the globesglobality to reve(a)l how gaping the stopgaps,to let in anti-Orientalisms non-Occident oxygen.In desert sea-sands and ocean deserts,in“the”Sky.And ashed phonemes fy.A nonsite archivingdisplacement(Cairo,Ill.?)“vector per vector”of victors and victims,disclosing dysco-ordinatecardinal direction incarnadine,this errant hieratic aren't(apparently)heirant.But yet accumulatecumuli,rubricated rubbles,literatures mummy ambidextrously unwrapped to “interfere withwhat is before us.”A counter-Champollion to unmast-icate pirate,refugee,slave—encryptionscripped and descripted—exploded Library of Paradise:"Feast of Scraps."(With Riemann(andOzymandias?(Whiz,for short)),we can only guess at the circumference. JuDITH GoLDMAN,AUTHOR OF AGON(THE OPERATING SYSTEM) In AsiZ,Tyrone Willams is on a world stage in an archeological endeavor of digging up the rootsof contemporary confHict and incurable stalemate.A tireless and jivy experimenter of language,Willams deploys a sonorous gurgling of words,divided by sound magic and reassembled bymeaning in a language that combines many modes,from placid narrative to britle rhetoric.Hisabandonment of full circle ideas,truncation of vegetating theories and the domes of solid stateshasten a transmogrification where structures are quintessentially amorphous and the'left outis a perennial reminder of what is omnipresent but out-of-scope in this re-examination of thesagas of conflict-history. ARYANIL MUKHERJEE,EDITOR OF KAURAB PATRIKA,KAURABONLINE &CO-EDITOR OF THE MUD PROPOSAL — ASIZ t xistins+mces一 BooKS Howell(Atelos Books,2011) The Adventures of Pi(Dos Madres Press,2011) The Hero Project of the Century(The Backwaters Press,2009)On Spec(Omnidawn Publishing,2008) c.c.(Krupskaya Books,2002) CHAPBOOKS Trumploeil(Hostile Books,2017) Between Red and Green:Narrative of the Black Brigade(Dos Madres Press,2016) Red Between Green(Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs,2015)Pink Tie(Hooke Press,2011)Musique Noir(Overhere Press,2006)Futures,Elections(Dos Madres,2004)AAB(Slack Buddha Press,2004) Tyrone Williams/Taylor Brady:Segue Reading Series(A Rest Press,Ltd.Edition,2003)Convalescence (poems),(Ridgeway Press,1987,2nd printing 1989;3rd printing 1994) —1 ASII TYRONE WILLIAMS OMNIDAWN PUBLISHINGOAKLAND,CALIFORNIA 2018 ◎ Copyright Tyrone Williams,2018All rights reserved. Cover art byJill Magi:“

FAQs

What is As iZ mainly concerned with, according to the praise text?

It focuses on excavating the roots of contemporary conflict and incurable stalemate, using language as an archaeological and exploratory tool.

How does the praise describe Tyrone Williams’s poetic method?

It describes a language experiment that is sonorous and musical, where words are broken by sound magic and reassembled through meaning.

What does the Acknowledgments section say about the poems’ earlier publication?

Many poems were first published in various print and online journals and magazines, with thanks given to multiple editors and publications.

Sep 28, 2026

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