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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Optic Nerve

Optic Nerve

Hollett, Matthew

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1771315997
ISBN13: 9781771315999
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: Apr 3 2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.67 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 JM ABRAHAM POETRY AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD

Poems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing.

Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world. Through playful poems about photography and visual perception, Hollett dissects auroras and quarks, atmospheric phenomena, potatoes, bomb craters and peat bog cadavers. This darkly comic collection is shadowed by entoptic paparazzi, haunted by peripheral visions. Born of attentive walking and looking, of footsteps and snapshots, it bears witness to art history and alluvial light, portable keyholes, the pandemic, climate change, and the sheer strangeness of seeing everyday things with ecstatic eyes.

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