"I Can't Describe It" Is Not, Strictly Speaking, A Book Review

Seattle's alternative alternative weekly, The Stranger, reviews Free Stream Velocity, a new collection of poems by John Olson. (The paper is a longtime supporter of Olson, taking up Echo Regime in 2000; also that year, they let him write about "what poetry is for.") Christopher Frizzelle is ecstatic (and, in all fairness, does have quite a bit to say about the content of the poems, despite my jocular headline):

Hell, I can't describe it, except that many of the pieces are a sequence of associations, one followed to the next, until the poet, as Gertrude Stein described it, is emptied of the feeling.

Olson has also discussed the influence of Bob Dylan's Tarantula. And here's his poem "The Day Was Gloves."