COMMITMENT
By Marianne Morris
£4/ $10 / €8
10 poems, 28 pp, 200 copies
ISBN 978-0-9567743-1-6
Published May 2011
in collaboration with Bad Press
The limited edition w/ 2-tone stencil cover & sparkly endpapers) is sold out, but copies of the normal run still remain!
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Catherine Wagner on Commitment:
In corrupt and clear-eyed anger this book pre-eviscerates any blurb that might décor it. It grabs the marketing barnacle by its brittle permanent neck. Commitment blooms through cult capital shudder-stop infolding toward cross-out. The commitment is to art fierce false and movingly untriumphant.
Jonty Tiplady on Commitment:
Un dolce amaro, un si e no mi muovi: it is not enough to not commend. Reading this book, you are witness to what Pater calls ‘the struggle of a desolating passion, which yearns to be resigned and sweet and pensive’, and which then unaccountably is. Speed is not good enough, neither is poetry, the era of climate change is an error. I think of Prince confused by his experiments with ecstasy, he made Lovesexy. Morris knows that the psychic thing-cruelty of the art-thing is only almost unavoidable, and so the image-tail wags. Too too tout autre muse. Out of the strong came forth more sweetness. Not only should you read it, you should read it again slowly, and think on.
