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The Absence of Zero
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ISBN13: 9781771667265
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: Nov 9 2021
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the Canadian tradition, the long poem. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.
Praise for R. Kolewe:
Kolewe enacts a curious, seemingly imperceptible talent for rendering nostalgia party to a mode of true grace, not the flatly sentimental, but instead this work invokes the cool gravity of viewing one's self-but-not seated alone in a quiet room, seemingly suspended forever in a discrete moment of space-time. --Liz Howard, Griffin Poetry Prize winning author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
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