Book Launch: Motion Detector by Drew Gardner
Book Launch: Motion Detector by Drew Gardner
Release Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025
“Setting things right / takes the example of a unifying contradiction.” —Drew Gardner, Motion Detector
BlazeVOX [books] is thrilled to announce the release of Motion Detector, the electrifying new collection from Drew Gardner—poet, musician, and long-standing innovator at the intersection of avant-garde poetics and lived experience.
In a world increasingly defined by rupture and resonance, Motion Detector is tuned to the shockwaves. These are poems alive to the beat of our uneasy century—charming, charged, and beautifully strange. Gardner composes verse like no one else: each line a note in a score of resistance, intelligence, and absurd delight.
“Gardner composes perfectly ironic music for those ‘alive without warning’ in menacing times.” —Laynie Browne
“Never stasis by mundane detour… always sustained by kinetic by original origin.” —Will Alexander
“Poet as ‘resonating chamber’… armed with the ‘disciplined kindness’ to defuse it.” —Rodney Koeneke
Gardner’s poetic voice is unmistakably his own, but if you imagine a meeting point between the radical gestures of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry and the personal immediacy of Frank O’Hara’s “Personism,” you’ll begin to feel the vibrational field of Motion Detector. These poems don’t sit still—they spark, pivot, and surprise, speaking from inside the engine of power with humor, lyric intensity, and philosophical depth.
Drew Gardner is the author of Sugar Pill, Petroleum Hat, Chomp Away, and Defender, and the editor of Ingenious Pleasures: An Anthology of Punk, Trash, and Camp in Twentieth-Century Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. He lives in New York City.
Order your copy now and join us in celebrating this dynamic new book of poems.
📖 Book Details
Title: Motion Detector
Author: Drew Gardner
Pages: 90
Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
ISBN: 978-1-60964-494-9
Price: $18
