Portulans: Phoenix Poets
Autor Jason Sommeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2021
Is there more to the story that you remember and hesitate
to say? Your eyes, though, scanning upward in their sockets,
do seem to search memory, but for what may be gone already,
gone to where it goes—wherever it came from—gone as can be imagined,
down into things, in past flesh and bark, marrow and pith, and down,
down into molecule, atom, particle, vanishing into theory.
to say? Your eyes, though, scanning upward in their sockets,
do seem to search memory, but for what may be gone already,
gone to where it goes—wherever it came from—gone as can be imagined,
down into things, in past flesh and bark, marrow and pith, and down,
down into molecule, atom, particle, vanishing into theory.
Through this collection, Sommer takes us to the ocean floor, into the basement, out the front door, through multiverses, and in and out of dreams. Along the way, he considers whether art—the beauty of the map—can provide momentary meaning against a backdrop of oblivion. Drawing on history and myth, the voices in these poems consider what can and cannot be known of the self and the other, of our values, and of what we insist has permanence. These are poems of searching. Like ancient cartographers who lent lavish decoration to their maps, the poems in Portulans illuminate possibilities of beauty in each journey.
Din seria Phoenix Poets
-
Preț: 89.92 lei -
Preț: 91.30 lei -
Preț: 83.03 lei -
Preț: 91.30 lei -
Preț: 83.70 lei -
Preț: 106.70 lei -
Preț: 92.32 lei -
Preț: 115.48 lei -
Preț: 106.88 lei -
Preț: 115.48 lei -
Preț: 88.68 lei -
Preț: 91.12 lei -
Preț: 143.37 lei -
Preț: 163.73 lei -
Preț: 281.79 lei -
Preț: 154.64 lei -
Preț: 163.11 lei -
Preț: 164.68 lei -
Preț: 193.22 lei -
Preț: 223.25 lei -
Preț: 156.15 lei -
Preț: 209.39 lei -
Preț: 157.29 lei -
Preț: 155.59 lei -
Preț: 164.30 lei -
Preț: 142.04 lei -
Preț: 265.23 lei -
Preț: 164.89 lei -
Preț: 127.60 lei -
Preț: 219.19 lei -
Preț: 166.17 lei -
Preț: 207.68 lei -
Preț: 121.45 lei -
Preț: 153.68 lei -
Preț: 235.64 lei -
Preț: 163.73 lei -
Preț: 162.80 lei -
Preț: 134.81 lei -
Preț: 155.78 lei -
Preț: 222.52 lei -
Preț: 164.68 lei -
Preț: 174.35 lei -
Preț: 166.17 lei -
Preț: 208.64 lei -
Preț: 156.12 lei -
Preț: 192.27 lei -
Preț: 210.14 lei -
Preț: 164.68 lei
Preț: 83.35 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 125
Preț estimativ în valută:
15.97€ • 16.81$ • 13.18£
15.97€ • 16.81$ • 13.18£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 02-16 ianuarie 25
Livrare express 18-24 decembrie pentru 15.80 lei
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226737393
ISBN-10: 022673739X
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Phoenix Poets
ISBN-10: 022673739X
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Phoenix Poets
Notă biografică
Jason Sommer is the author of four previous books of poetry, most recently The Laughter of Adam and Eve, and two in the Phoenix series: Other People’s Troubles and The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. He has also published English versions of Irish language poems and two collaborative book-length translations of contemporary Chinese fiction. His poems have appeared in publications such as the New Republic, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Agni, River Styx, and TriQuarterly, among others.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Soul
The Expedition
The Most I Took Back from a Dream
In the Basement Is the Previous Culture
Satori
Changing the Script
Wakened to a Certain Knowledge of a Limited Kind
Multiverse
Incident at the Mother’s
Four Photos and Brief Case Report from the Journal Surgery
In the Moment before the Call Drops
In Their Nature: A Trio of Neighbors in a Sidewalk Chat
Children Wearing My Shoes
He Thinks
To Myself in the Coming Time
Billy’s Facts of Life
At the Friends of the Library Local Authors Event
Lot’s Daughters
The Old Art
Apollo Takes the Trophy of Marsyas
L. Receives Honorable Mention in Late Middle Age
What Men Want
Grudge
Attention
Recenzii
“The beauty of Portulans comes not only from Sommer’s formal gracefulness, but also from his matching that virtuosity with mortal stakes. Poems like ‘Incident at the Mother’s,’ ‘Attention,’ and ‘Billy’s Facts of Life’ reveal narrative skill and unsentimental depth of sympathy that little contemporary fiction can equal, while ‘Multiverse’ and ‘In the Basement Is the Previous Culture’ display Sommer’s sheer capacity of imagination. Open to spontaneity while masterfully carved, these poems are alive to our moment, which they will outlast.”
“‘There are no words / beneath the shape of things,’ Sommer concedes, but his poems almost make one believe that there could be. With the care and precision of a navigator trying to discern paths that won’t simply circle back, he bypasses metaphors gone wrong, riding a syntax supple enough to hold the music of the ‘the mind’s buoyant gravities.’ The many kinds of rhymes in this collection are invitations to listen closely to the layers of history and myth that hum beneath thinking. ‘It’s inner space he’s after,’ and he takes us there.”
"Sommer explores the internal depths of consciousness with a sly precision that is unsettling and revelatory. Quietly but restlessly, the poems capture fragile analogies for consciousness only for consciousness then to abrade these braided likenesses, to dissolve them, and so the journey begins again, the detritus of analogy left behind like a recursive trail of ruined monuments, markers in a portulan."