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And And And

And And And

Swensen, Cole

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848618832
ISBN13: 9781848618831
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Sep 1 2023
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Swensen is psychopomp back to an orphic sense of voice, one the critic Elizabeth Sewell, in The Orphic Voice, describes as ...a kind of manual of language and mind as a dance of relations, moving and not static, which may help us forward. That could serve as worthy blurb for And And And. Swensen is returning us to a kind of first poetics, a prima poieia, in which word and world are co-creative and mutually flourishing. Here language doesn't define, doesn't categorize, doesn't lay claim to fact or knowledge. What paltry things such certainties are against the ongoing mystery of the vital energy stitching one life to every other...

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