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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Unrecounted

Unrecounted

Hamburger, Michael
Sebald, W. G.
Tripp, Jan Peter

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General PoetryIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811217264
ISBN13: 9780811217262
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Oct 15 2007
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 10.02
Language: English
Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his micropoems--miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works--with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp.

The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes--the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp, Sebald comments in his essay, the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak.

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