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24 Hour Air is a cycle of twenty-four prose poems that takes place on the scale of a mythic day. Documenting each hour in this day, the cycle depicts different zones of the writer’s life. A painting studio, the sands of Fire Island, a childhood bedroom, a game of Tetris; the death of a father, the loss of lovers, life synchronized with and without friends. Rosenthalis’ systematic approach, where each poem takes its title and imagery from another poem in the cycle, releases a psychosomatic painterliness that apprehends what one poem calls, in a tongue-in-cheek gesture towards Shakespearean philosophizing, “quintessence.” The attention to detail in these internal still lifes becomes ultimately life-affirming: “As long as a length happens, like a sheer black stocking, anyone can try on in-ness, I think.” This is a world of spit, semen, and tears. These poems veer at times absurd and enigmatic, mysterious and quizzical, through an awe-inspiring faith in the power of the imagination. Departing from the famed contemporary American painter Jennifer Bartlett’s series of twenty-four paintings, on permanent display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24 Hour Air moves beyond conventional ekphrasis to become its own sensual and idiosyncratic autobiographical work of art.
Advance Praise
John Ashbery wrote of Jennifer Bartlett, whose Air: 24 Hours paintings inspired the breezy poems in Nathaniel Rosenthalis’s 24 Hour Air, that it was her habit “to begin with a basic concept and work it out ad absurdum, ultimately sabotaging its ‘purity’ with freewheeling improvisation.” The same applies here, where the sensuousness of the quotidian is released from the day’s regimen, attaining the measured extravagance of, say, mirrors, liriopes, and, why not, expansive towels. Like the day’s events, the phrases and images in these poems repeat and recombine, but irregularly so, reminding us that regularity does not cancel our need to extemporize, but rather delimits the boundaries of our daily improvisations. If only days had more than 24 hours!
— Mónica de la Torre
Nathaniel Rosenthalis’s poems have a beguiling transparency and simplicity that serve as winsome screen for the complications provided by his syntax and his emotional orientation toward curlicue, paradox, and detour. Morsels of keen portraiture verging on abstraction, sometimes seeming like expressionist dramas rendered in clean cut-outs, Rosenthalis’s cameos occupy the prose-poem terrain of Charles Simic, Anne Carson, and Max Jacob, with a warm debt to Gertrude Stein’s angular defamiliarizations. I’m instantly drawn into Rosenthalis’s imaginative world and I want to stay there forever.
— Wayne Koestenbaum
About the Author
Nathaniel Rosenthalis is a poet and critic whose work appears in the Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, the Harvard Advocate, Boston Review, PANK, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City, where he is an instructor at Baruch College and Columbia University.
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