Victor Coleman

Icon Tact: Poems 1984-2001 Victor Coleman

Poetry. All the sections of ICON TACT were conceived as book-length single texts or serial poems; some of them were published as such in limited editions either by the author (as The Eternal Network) or by other micro presses. This book reflects a tradition Coleman has followed since Coach House released CORRECTIONS in 1985. ICON TACT represents the end of what Coleman considers to be his `conventional' poetry cycle, during which only AMERICA reflects his current concerns with Oulipianconstraints and poetry as a kind of word sculpture. LETTER DROP (2000) and MI SING (2005) represent one half of a four book set of which the third (based on Mallarmes prose) is currently in progress. The fourth book will be concerned with thewriting and the lives of the Troubadours.