form of our uncertainty // Gil Ott tribute 133 pp.: Ed. by Kristen Gallagher In cunjunction with Chax Press, Charles Alexander Featuring new poetry, prose by Gil Ott. Interviews, responses by: Ammiel Alcalay, Charles Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Anonymous, Julia Blumenreich, Craig Czury, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Fischer, Kristen Gallagher, Eli Goldblatt, Karen Kelley, Kevin Killian, Hank Lazer, Andrew Levy, Chris McCreary, Toby Olson, Bob Perelman, Leslie Scalapino, Kerry Sherin, Ron Silliman, Heather Starr, Chris Stroffolino, Mark Wallace.	"Evidence of Gil Ott's proficiencies have been left in spray paint and street-corner soliloquies, as well as in his work of editing and publishing the poetry and prose of writers practicing diverse tactics and politics. One thing has concerned him consistently: "the struggle to articulate" …His acceptance of uncertainty and his history of stirring things up in status-quo-ville are the defining qualities of Gil Ott's poetics. One thing Gil says he has often reacted against is the assumption that 'people seek out order' ...Perhaps much of Gil's work gets its distinctive edge from his ability to hold tensions and attune to complex, often contradictory senses ...In all of Gil's work one can find a certain pleasure he refers to as 'the satisfaction of articulation' - a presence of hearing and saying, of finding relation through more relation." - Kristen Gallagher, from the introduction "I find Gil's ability to move across aesthetic and political lines in a local, unpatronizing, non-ideological and generous way, still all too rare. At the same time, he has managed to remain fiercely independent and completely uncompromising - it is out of such fabric that the best of our culture, a culture that we can claim to be part of, is woven. As such phenomena become recognized more generally… Gil's past and present efforts… will find their rightful place in American literary and intellectual history." - Ammiel Alcalay "Gil's words shift and slip past the reach of the greedy, comprehending mind. I glimpse images and find myself dreaming whole stories when I read his poems..." - Eli Goldblatt "To be an artist who works with language is to have your hands on a great secret, an illusion. It is truly the source of power in our world. And there are no forms of language that have not contributed to some abuse of power. This realization set me out early on, looking for incorruptible forms. The equation was: disruption of the illusion = exposure of the abuse. Some time ago, however, I realized that this is a mighty big prescription for poetry." - Gil Ott, interviewed by Kristen Gallagher To download this eBook, visit the E-Library. Required: free adobe acrobat reader.