Murat Nemet-Nejat, The Spiritual Life of Replicants
Cover illustration by Peter Hristoff. Used with permission.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58498-076-6, paper, $14.95
Murat Nemet-Nejat’s Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry “establishes ‘eda’ as a marker of poetic process much as Lorca’s duende or the Japanese concept of yugen had ignited similar interests in the century now behind us. The rootedness of mysticism in language is central to the poetics in question, a point he hammers home with great intelligence & passion.” --Jerome Rothenberg
“The Spiritual Life of Replicants is not only comprised of the so-called ‘replicated’ fragments from which many other texts, experiences, and subtle motives arise; but also replicates itself as a poem that transcends the confines of its own poetics. This is not a personal choice that the poet or reader can make. The poem itself gains autonomy and finds the right for its
own ongoing replication: the cyclical arrangement of words within this work is also what gives spirituality a presence.” --Efe Murad
“In The Spiritual Life of Replicants Murat Nemet-Nejat has found a way to filter the ‘peripheral relationship of consciousness to wider natural forces’ through a playful, deftly imaginative and nonetheless searing and immediate extended meditation on the binding necessity of disappearance sounds, images, and physical forms must contend with. The book’s elaborate Film Lumiere form makes room for transformative interplay between lyric, prose, page-as-visual-field, collaboration, translation, and something like speculative sensory observation, which honors the insights on perception made by directors such as Bresson and Brakhage while clearing a vast and vital space for poetry. The Spiritual Life of Replicants feels to me, on the level of feeling bringing about events, like a total breakthrough for the present art.”—Anselm Berrigan
“Modernists had their holy myths, but Murat Nemet-Nejat has Blade Runner, from which he draws our predicament: we are all of us skin jobs, fearful of our end, desperate to learn our nature. In this new book, this brilliant splicing of outtakes, of lyric reasoning, philosophical cries, and uncontainable personal illumination, Nemet-Nejat catches the shadows of a postmodern Sufic truth. The Spiritual Life of Replicants delves into the harrowing divide between circuit and angel, eye and I, the apparent and the real. These
words are perverse, religious, and an immense pleasure.” --Joseph Donahue
ISBN-13: 978-1-58498-076-6, paper, $14.95
Murat Nemet-Nejat’s Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry “establishes ‘eda’ as a marker of poetic process much as Lorca’s duende or the Japanese concept of yugen had ignited similar interests in the century now behind us. The rootedness of mysticism in language is central to the poetics in question, a point he hammers home with great intelligence & passion.” --Jerome Rothenberg
“The Spiritual Life of Replicants is not only comprised of the so-called ‘replicated’ fragments from which many other texts, experiences, and subtle motives arise; but also replicates itself as a poem that transcends the confines of its own poetics. This is not a personal choice that the poet or reader can make. The poem itself gains autonomy and finds the right for its
own ongoing replication: the cyclical arrangement of words within this work is also what gives spirituality a presence.” --Efe Murad
“In The Spiritual Life of Replicants Murat Nemet-Nejat has found a way to filter the ‘peripheral relationship of consciousness to wider natural forces’ through a playful, deftly imaginative and nonetheless searing and immediate extended meditation on the binding necessity of disappearance sounds, images, and physical forms must contend with. The book’s elaborate Film Lumiere form makes room for transformative interplay between lyric, prose, page-as-visual-field, collaboration, translation, and something like speculative sensory observation, which honors the insights on perception made by directors such as Bresson and Brakhage while clearing a vast and vital space for poetry. The Spiritual Life of Replicants feels to me, on the level of feeling bringing about events, like a total breakthrough for the present art.”—Anselm Berrigan
“Modernists had their holy myths, but Murat Nemet-Nejat has Blade Runner, from which he draws our predicament: we are all of us skin jobs, fearful of our end, desperate to learn our nature. In this new book, this brilliant splicing of outtakes, of lyric reasoning, philosophical cries, and uncontainable personal illumination, Nemet-Nejat catches the shadows of a postmodern Sufic truth. The Spiritual Life of Replicants delves into the harrowing divide between circuit and angel, eye and I, the apparent and the real. These
words are perverse, religious, and an immense pleasure.” --Joseph Donahue