Afterrimages (Wesleyan Poetry) - Softcover

Retallack, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819512230 ISBN 13: 9780819512239

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1995

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"A meticulous but passionate book, clear in its intentions, powerful both visually and intellectually." -- Lyn Hejinian

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Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they intersect and leave their traces on the page. All of civilization to date, all of history is after all aftermath, afterthought, afterimage. The language graphics of AFTERRIMAGES lay claim to the fragility-the gift, the terror, and the whimsy-of the remnant that all images are. Their playful nature is born of the conviction that the present tense-tense, tensile with immanent futurity-must extend itself toward the unintelligible and unknown. This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place.

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• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0819512230
• ISBN 13: 9780819512239
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 115