I Want Something Other Than Time

Author: Lewis Freedman Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse (2021) Across a series of sixty-four poems, each titled with the eponymous refrain, I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality, as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts, futures, presents. "William Carlos Williams wrote 'a poet thinks with his poem.' The wild propositions that are shot through every line of this work are, in a word, sensational. Freedman can turn on a dime from theory to agony, from politics to revelation, and then move to the open sky. In its way, I Want Something Other Than Time is a devotional book, if we consider the verticality of the mind opening to a larger order, devotional. This book is a tour de force." –Peter Gizzi "In this lake woodland region of poetry linked to earthen, jungle, and celestial isthmuses, and to the Oce