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Oems: Volume 299
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Series: Essential Poets (Ecco)
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ISBN13: 9781771837637
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: Nov 1 2022
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.24 Width: 4.88 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
oems is a collection of thirty-six lipogrammatic poems composed entirely of flat words such as sunrise or unconsciousness, which contain no ascending or descending letters. Proceeding from the author's lived experience of OCD, the book leans into obsessive-compulsive tendencies, attempting to exorcise them through overuse. In the spirit of rumination, these poems repeatedly circle one nagging question: namely, the matter of what remains after language has been sifted and sorted, sandpapered and planed. In chasing the frisson of a polished stanza, oems performs a personal reckoning with the pleasures of fixation, the virtues of sublimation, and the costs of erasure.
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