Time - Softcover

Adnan, Etel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1643620045 ISBN 13: 9781643620046

Verlag: Nightboat Books, 2019

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Críticas:

A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. -David Orr, The New York Times Book Review (Best of 2016 Poetry) Renowned Lebanese-American writer Adnan maps consciousness in a book-length poem that explores night in all its permutations. Though she is more elliptical and fragmentary here-and less narrative-driven or referential-than in previous work, these poems engage in a daring, meditative exploration of perception and her own experiences. Adnan does this with a courageous interiority that becomes universal as the text unfolds. Memory is a particularly notable leitmotif as it relates to identity, whether personal or collective. "I measure my memory of things, but not memory itself, as the present is also overflowing," she writes. These internal and societal memories lend themselves to queries about history, landscape, and the nature of consciousness. Adnan posits that memory is not a "storage room. It's not a tool for being able to think, it's thinking, before thinking." As the book progresses, memory becomes increasingly knotted with loss and mortality: "It was said that people mattered, which we did, and they lost their shine." Adnan never provides clear answers, but this prevents her wide-ranging assertions from becoming didactic; her evocative imagery and interwoven repetitions serve to create another memory-one that will linger with the reader long after the text's conclusion. --Publishers Weekly

Reseña del editor:

On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.

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• Verlag: Nightboat Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1643620045
• ISBN 13: 9781643620046
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144