UT Review (1979) Vol.VI No.1
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1979
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University of Tampa
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UT Review: A Continuing Anthology of Immanentist and Other Poetries. UT Review was published from 1972-1982.
It was preceded by Poetry Review, published 1964-1971, and succeeded by Abatis, published 1972-1982, and Tampa Review published 1988-present.
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THE UTTERANCE ABOVE THE STUTTER
Steve Sleboda is a poet who faces words as if they were strangers. In every poem he is an Adam without a garden or any pre-existing order. He is a man bereft of a meaningful lanÂguage, and yet he is compelled to name the things of the world. He must take his scanty inheritance, an empty language, and renovate until meaning is born. He must overcome, rearrange, displace until words once more have significance.
He has chosen the heroic and strenuous path to make the words vehicles of truth, the cosmic and inner truth of poetry, and not the more easy and happy one of being a fashionable entertainer and writing about the illusory. He eschews what is readily recognized and takes dangerous risks. Sleboda has sensed that the old language must be destroyed if words are to have genuine meaning and if communication is to be restored
Sleboda's language might seem obscure to those who beÂlieve what they hear, but once they can step outside of their illusions and ego-imprisonment, Sleboda's language becomes crystal-clear.
Steve Sleboda is a poet who faces words as if they were strangers. In every poem he is an Adam without a garden or any pre-existing order. He is a man bereft of a meaningful lanÂguage, and yet he is compelled to name the things of the world. He must take his scanty inheritance, an empty language, and renovate until meaning is born. He must overcome, rearrange, displace until words once more have significance.
He has chosen the heroic and strenuous path to make the words vehicles of truth, the cosmic and inner truth of poetry, and not the more easy and happy one of being a fashionable entertainer and writing about the illusory. He eschews what is readily recognized and takes dangerous risks. Sleboda has sensed that the old language must be destroyed if words are to have genuine meaning and if communication is to be restored
Sleboda's language might seem obscure to those who beÂlieve what they hear, but once they can step outside of their illusions and ego-imprisonment, Sleboda's language becomes crystal-clear.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- Periodicals