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I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

Moschovakis, Anna

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1885586493
ISBN13: 9781885586490
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: Sep 1 2006
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Moschovakis's playfully grim debut, a gathering of smart, sometimes puzzling poetic sequences, swears allegiance to fragments, open-ended inquiries, sudden juxtapositions and projects linked to analytic philosophy. The first sequence, Thought Experiment, consists of slightly flirtatious short blocks of prose: With progress, not only earthquakes but kisses will be predicted. Her last two, Winter Songs and the excellent The Dead Man Looks into His Own Dead Ear, explore self-alienation and mourning in quirky, curt lines, distorting grammar as she goes: Coiling around a stone/ in the posture of sleep/ I is getting wakier. Of the four sequences in between, the strongest, The Blue Book, piles up single-line sentences as it vamps on queries from Ludwig Wittgenstein: A language changes in appearances as I learn to decipher its characters. Moschovakis, an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, has crafted a mix of sparkling moments and baffling structures; her first sortie of philosophical investigations promises much more to come. (Oct.) Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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