movingparts: Volume 77 (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, 77) - Softcover

Carson, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0228016665 ISBN 13: 9780228016663

Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

the body / knows what / it truly / wants yet / the mind / wavers all

In Edward Carson’s provocative new work, the poetic moving parts of movingparts confront and breathe new life into what’s true and what’s not in Aesop’s fable "The Fox and the Crow," as well as the shifting, often fragmentary ground between what’s said and what’s not about identity and intimacy in Sappho’s lyrics.

Reflecting the moment-to-moment ways our minds think, these poems take us from a creative process of disconnection and reassembly to a sonic pacing of words arising out of their stillness on the page. A flair for syntactical compression is found throughout, balanced by a capricious yet transforming diction, what John Ashbery described as seeking to stretch “the bond between language and communication.” Calling witness to the narratives of history while pivoting their reach forward to the present, the rhythms, allusions, and resulting outcomes of Carson’s use of language expand both narrative and discovery.

movingparts is brought full circle when an unexpected historical connection between Sappho and Aesop is revealed, hinting that what is true or false in the past or present of our lives can arrive at an intimacy with and illumination of more than we imagine.

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Edward Carson is the author of several poetry collections including twofold, movingparts, whereabouts, Look Here Look Away Look Again, and Knots. He lives in Toronto.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0228016665
• ISBN 13: 9780228016663
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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