Endurable Infinity

Poems

Tony Kitt brings Surrealism’s fascination with the image forward into a poetic landscape of his own. Kitt’s is not a textbook Surrealist poetry but rather is subtly shaped as much by a concern for the signifying reflexes of language as such as by Surrealist-inspired practice.
Arteidolia

In Endurable Infinity, Tony Kitt creates his own tangential surrealism through wonder, intuition, and surprising connections. If the original surrealists of the 1930s sought to unleash the unconscious mind by bringing elements of dreams to the waking world with jarring juxtapositions, Kitt’s poetry is more about transmutation, or leaps, from word to word and phrase to phrase. He takes American poet Charles Borkhuis’s statement that contemporary surrealist poets write “from inside language” as a challenge and a call to action.

79 Pages

November, 2022

isbn : 9780822966951

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Tony Kitt

Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His poetry chapbook The Magic Phlute was published by SurVision Books in 2019. He edited the anthology Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022). His poems have been translated into Italian and Romanian and appear in Oxford Poetry, the North, Plume, Poetry Ireland Review, the Prague Revue, Cyphers, Under the Radar, the American Journal of Poetry, Stride, and other journals and anthologies.

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