Blindsight
Autor Greg Hewetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2016
Praise for Greg Hewett:
2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
2007 Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist
In poems that are witty, touching, and introspective as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his sight, becoming a parent, easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.
From "Skyglow":
we spin filaments of light into profiles,
drawing each other
through something resembling time and space and dark.
Let's call this something something vague and mythic
as the ether. Let's say we're ethereal.
2010 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
2007 Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist
In poems that are witty, touching, and introspective as well as formally inventive, we find the poet losing his sight, becoming a parent, easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.
From "Skyglow":
we spin filaments of light into profiles,
drawing each other
through something resembling time and space and dark.
Let's call this something something vague and mythic
as the ether. Let's say we're ethereal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566894487
ISBN-10: 1566894484
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
ISBN-10: 1566894484
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
Recenzii
“The poems here are so plainspoken you might think them ‘ordinary.’ If they are ‘ordinary,’ though, it is because they speak to the most common and universal urges of a human’s life. But in their spareness, their quiet and matter-of-fact tone, they go way beyond the vision of the farthest telescope, way more intimate than the most powerful microscope. Hewett is a poet desperate to know—that ‘knowledge’ is never cheap and always comes at great cost is of no importance, because if anything this poet mistrusts simple vision. He aims deeper, darker. The stakes are high for this poet and his gamble pays off stunningly.”—Kazim Ali
“I was utterly blindsided by Blindsight, so aurally and intellectually seduced by its prime and primal rhythms and organization that I was unprepared for the ferocity of its content, the ‘divine funk’ of its spiraling queer-otics, the shattered mending of its desirousness, and the profundity of its vision of losing vision. If Wallace Stephens’s spirit object was the wilderness-organizing jar in Tennessee, Hewett’s is ‘a condom, unfurled and full,’ which ‘holds dominion over this satellite world.’ Even in this deeply literary collection, Hewett expresses a renegade distrust of the mechanisms of language: ‘Take blindness as metaphor, / you say, but I say / take metaphor as blindness / deforming life to get at / the idea behind life / tires me.’ Always, he seeks the pulse of the unsayable prime beneath words, the visible vision in ‘blindness deep and far.’”—Diane Seuss
“‘We sense numbers in our breath, / in a line of poetry, a measure of music / running through our heads,’ Greg Hewett tells us. In Blindsight he brings his acute poetic vision to the peculiar power of prime numbers, which manifest in the sinuous rigor of his syllabic lines and the acuity of his insights into the essentially incalculable truths of our lives. In a collection rich with lyric assurance and generosity of spirit, Hewett riffs on music theory, classic movies and texts, porn, the power of place, and loss and desire, past and present. Leading us into ever-greater clarity and compassion, he pays undivided attention to the world we share, where ‘there’s no greater vision / than in finally seeing / details reigning everywhere.’”—David Groff
“‘The man at the door / of this stanza is a ghost’: Greg Hewett’s poems embody astonishingly precise awareness. I cannot think of another poet who enters memory with such visionary suspicion, such delight. ‘What can’t be seen shows / everywhere’: Hewett’s poems invite us (dare us) to imagine, to see, in the clearest, bravest way possible (‘like spirits, if spirits had flesh and were still spirits’). Blindsight is a great book. We need it right now.”—Joseph Lease
“I was utterly blindsided by Blindsight, so aurally and intellectually seduced by its prime and primal rhythms and organization that I was unprepared for the ferocity of its content, the ‘divine funk’ of its spiraling queer-otics, the shattered mending of its desirousness, and the profundity of its vision of losing vision. If Wallace Stephens’s spirit object was the wilderness-organizing jar in Tennessee, Hewett’s is ‘a condom, unfurled and full,’ which ‘holds dominion over this satellite world.’ Even in this deeply literary collection, Hewett expresses a renegade distrust of the mechanisms of language: ‘Take blindness as metaphor, / you say, but I say / take metaphor as blindness / deforming life to get at / the idea behind life / tires me.’ Always, he seeks the pulse of the unsayable prime beneath words, the visible vision in ‘blindness deep and far.’”—Diane Seuss
“‘We sense numbers in our breath, / in a line of poetry, a measure of music / running through our heads,’ Greg Hewett tells us. In Blindsight he brings his acute poetic vision to the peculiar power of prime numbers, which manifest in the sinuous rigor of his syllabic lines and the acuity of his insights into the essentially incalculable truths of our lives. In a collection rich with lyric assurance and generosity of spirit, Hewett riffs on music theory, classic movies and texts, porn, the power of place, and loss and desire, past and present. Leading us into ever-greater clarity and compassion, he pays undivided attention to the world we share, where ‘there’s no greater vision / than in finally seeing / details reigning everywhere.’”—David Groff
“‘The man at the door / of this stanza is a ghost’: Greg Hewett’s poems embody astonishingly precise awareness. I cannot think of another poet who enters memory with such visionary suspicion, such delight. ‘What can’t be seen shows / everywhere’: Hewett’s poems invite us (dare us) to imagine, to see, in the clearest, bravest way possible (‘like spirits, if spirits had flesh and were still spirits’). Blindsight is a great book. We need it right now.”—Joseph Lease
Notă biografică
Greg Hewett is the author of darkacre (Coffee House Press, 2010), The Eros Conspiracy (2006), Red Suburb (2002), and To Collect the Flesh (New Rivers Press, 1996)—poetry collections that have received a Publishing Triangle Award, two Minnesota Book Award Nominations, a Lambda Book Award Nomination, and an Indie Bound Poetry Top Ten recommendation. The recipient of Fulbright fellowships to Denmark and Norway, Hewett has also been a fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France, and is Professor of English at Carleton College. He is currently finishing a biography of the film noir actor Thomas Gomez.
Descriere
Witty, touching, introspective—Blindsight finds Hewett becoming a parent and easing toward middle age with a sense of calm and inevitability.