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On Certainty

Autor Karla Kelsey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 2023
Lyrical poems that tell the story of a nameless woman navigating a technological dystopia.
 
In the poems of On Certainty, an unnamed woman in a strangely familiar dystopia narrates a story of power and decline, where the Tyrant has gained ascendency and the Philosopher is dying. Here, the Tyrant rules over a decimated ecology filled with android deer, burnt towns, and exhausted individuals dependent on virtual reality augmentation. In choosing whether to take the Philosopher’s place in a struggle against the Tyrant, the narrator must consider how her decision may perpetuate the currently existing catastrophic systems.
 
Weaving together speculative fiction, philosophical aphorism, lyric fragment, and documentary technique, On Certainty echoes the contemporary world that can feel simultaneously quotidian and strange.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632431202
ISBN-10: 1632431203
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Colecția Omnidawn

Notă biografică

Karla Kelsey’s poetry books include Blood Feather; A Conjoined Book, also published by Omnidawn; Iteration Nets; and Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, selected by Carolyn Forché for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her book of experimental essays, Of Sphere, was selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Prize. With Aaron McCollough, she copublishes SplitLevel Texts, a press specializing in hybrid genre projects.

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“In On Certainty the Tyrant, the Philosopher and the Poet are triangulated in a struggle for meaning’s definitions within history’s conglomerations and the troubling immediacy of socio-political and ecological disaster. In shimmering fractionalized form Kelsey summons past lives and a projection of possible futures into an event horizon of feminist reckoning. This fierce and elegant saga untangles speculative tautologies to understand dynamic contingency in prismatic, mesmerizing transmissions. I wish the Poet the upper hand in regardening the world.” 

On Certainty is a feminist, philosophical meditation on love, loss, and ways of knowing—through history, through philosophy, technology, and through the body. Like the taxidermied deer sculpture covered with crystal spheres that the book makes reference to, On Certainty considers the blurring of the real and the virtual, the conceptual and the embodied. There are no simplistic borders, no clear edges. There is instead beauty and lyricism in language, the accumulative power of repetition and re-contextualizing of phrases and imagery, and there are provocations, thrilling in all their ontological possibilities.”