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49 Syllables on Life
Paperback
Publisher Price: $10.00
ISBN13: 9780473559076
Publisher: Ang Book Co Ltd.
Published: Jan 11 2021
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.17 Width: 4.37 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
A meditation 49 poems long on life that combines creative flights within a haiku-like discipline.
Every poem comprises just 49 syllables, with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings, thoughts and discursive world-play are wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures that makes it a challenging read.
This is the first of three volumes, with another completed. The other title is a meditation on love: 49 Syllables on Love.
The texts are accompanied by Tom Ang's beautiful, melancholic still-lifes that reflect the co-creativity of chaos in the photographic process.
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