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Автор: Thomas David Lisk
Год: 2006
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 104
ISBN: 9781932559965
Description The poems in These Beautiful Limits delight in the transparency-and the obliquity-of language. Invested with a "jocoserious" sensibility, they explore the borders of language to see the ways in which language defines identity-not merely the language of meditation and philosophical inquiry, but also the quotidian language of everyday life that hovers on the edge of forgetfulness. The collection, which culminates in a long poem, "Hemp Quoits," takes as its premise the assumption that the borders of identity are permeable with all the languages the self encounters on a daily basis. The poems value mobility and freedom, yet they recognize that we transact our affairs within borders-the body, the mind, the poem, the sentence, the phrase, the word-and that voyages of being are inevitably processes of discovery: "As long as what you write is in your hand/and my name is nowhere affixed,/ any connection will be conjectural. . . ." Lisk's collection finds an aesthetics that comes...
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