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Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27)

Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27)

Lazer, Hank

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0998677728
ISBN13: 9780998677729
Publisher: Negative Capability Press
Published: Mar 1 2018
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

From Lazer's ambitious ten-year Notebook shape-writing project, Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) challenges the way we read and write poetry and reframes the terms of spiritual autobiography. Though Lazer's handwritten shape-writing presents itself most obviously and initially as a visual experience - the shape of thinking itself embodied in the improvisation of each page - this book is also infused with the overlapping ways in which we both hear and are here. Beginning with Lazer's fourth trip to Havana (and two noteworthy jazz-poetry concerts with saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar), music itself and the music of the shape-written poetry is crucial to this book, just as is an ever-shifting investigation of how we are here: what it means to be in a specific place. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, Lazer creates immediately accessible and beautifully drawn intervals of consciousness that is a unique contribution to American poetry.

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