Propulsive Mosaic

This being shared footage by flare 
by marked osmosis 
by dazzling summary viper 
working through debris as yield 
being form 
as motionless gldiolii 

Being sub-graded trans-function 
as multiplying cartilage into form 
that eclipse their own formation
by receding claim 
by theorem as receding reality 
sans re-scription by linear embellzlement as crucial flaw by pointlessness 
that interrogates substance 
by damaged instant 
by propulsive mosaic 


Will Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The latter is central to Alexander’s expanding inner range, which has allowed him access to levels of mind beyond the three-dimensional as boundary. He thereby explores the full dimensionality of each word. For him, each word has access to not only the median level of three-dimensional experience, but also partakes of experience on both the supra and subconscious planes. His praxis of language is not unlike the Mayan numerical world, where each letter of the alphabet spontaneously engages in non-limit. Thus, all fields of experience are open for exploration: art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, and poetics. Alexander’s books include Asia and HaitiThe Sri Lankan LoxodromeCompression and PuritySunrise In ArmageddonDiary As SinInside the Earthquake PalaceTowards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents. He was a 2022 Pulitzer Finalist for his poetry book Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021). He lives in The City of Angels.