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Transmission Loss

Transmission Loss

Jennings, Chelsea

Paperback

Series: Juniper Prize for Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1625343396
ISBN13: 9781625343390
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: Feb 9 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In the study of sound waves and optics, the term transmission loss refers to how a signal grows weaker as it travels across distance and between objects. In this book, Chelsea Jennings reimagines the term in poems that register attenuated signals, mark presence and loss, and treat the body as an instrument sensitive to the weather of immediate experience. Threading together landscapes, abstract paintings, family heirlooms, maps, manuscripts, and photographs, these poems follow the seasons and traverse the spectrum of visible light. Vivid and precise, Transmission Loss brings us to the boundary between inside and outside, As if what the hand knows / could be held in the hand.

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