Ahadada Books is pleased to present A Labyrinth of Visions by Bruce Stater. A Labyrinth of Visions is the fourteenth release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series. Click here to download!

Of Bruce Stater's Labyrinth, Jerome Rothenberg writes: "To say it quickly: Bruce Stater’s Labyrinth of Vision is little short of extraordinary – a work that ties language to a journey truly taken & a mind in extremis that acts to record it.  Stater, as I read him, writes with a sense of imaginings that reminds me of a poet like Gerard de Nerval in his visionary prose work, Aurelia, where “dream is a second life” & “an overflow” into the everyday.  As with Nerval & a small company of others, then & now, the vision & the language are inseparable: “a journey of remembrance & metaphor,” as the title of Stater’s first chapter tells us.  If you want to take that as merely literature, feel free to do so; it is that & something more: a place where metaphor rings true & is – for the duration of the vision – the only truth there is.  “It is light, it is dark,” the old Aztecs said in defining their own labyrinths, & it is also the mark in Stater’s labyrinthine journey of a strong new voice in poetry."

 'A Staterment' by tENTATIVELY , a cONVENIENCE

"[tENT's] modest attempt to write about Bruce's A Labyrinth of Visions & the greater context of his writing in general"

"1st, I am NOT an expert on Bruce Stater's work. 2nd, unfortunately, I doubt that there ARE any experts on Bruce's work other than himself. Therefore, consider this modest attempt to write about Bruce's "A Labyrinth of Visions" & the greater context of his writing in general as indicating that the lack of scholarly attn to this body is a lack I hope will be corrected - preferably w/in Bruce's lifetime!"
    —tENTATIVELY , a cONVENIENCE, from 'A Staterment'. "[tENT's] modest attempt to write about Bruce's A Labyrinth of Visions & the greater context of his writing in general" . Click here to download tENTATIVELY , a cONVENIENCE's full piece.