Particle and Wave (Phoenix Poets) - Softcover

Landry, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022609619X ISBN 13: 9780226096193

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2014

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"The poetry of everyday (and not so everyday) objects has seldom been as strikingly realized as in this exciting first collection." (John Ashbery)"

Reseña del editor:

Are we alone? If so, Particle and Wave insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements—a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry—unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, personal, and existential. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, Particle and Wave is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. From the most recent housing bust, to the artistic visions of Christo and Jeanne Claude, to the labors of the Curies, to Pliny the Younger’s account of the eruption of Vesuvius, culture and world histories are recontextualized through the lens of personal experience. Muscular, precise, structurally varied, and imagistic, these poems engage in lyricism yet resist mere confession. In doing so they project the self as a composite, speaking in a variety of registers, from the nursery rhyme songster, to the ascetic devotee, to the unapologetic sensualist. They welcome all comers and elbow the bounded physical world to make way for a dynamic, new subjectivity.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022609619X
• ISBN 13: 9780226096193
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 73