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Wolf Centos

Wolf Centos

Muench, Simone

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ISBN10: 1936747790
ISBN13: 9781936747795
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Sep 16 2014
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.80 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
Wolf Centos is comprised of centos, a patchwork form that originated around the 4th century. The form is one which re-configures pre-existing poetic texts into new systems of imagery and ideas. The author is able to place poets in conversation with one another across centuries and across continents. Though the poems are explicitly sutured together by the motif of the wolf, they are also linked by other elements, particularly motifs of language, loss, desire, and transformation. Wolf Centos is ultimately elegiac as it oscillates between transformation and stasis, wildness and domesticity, death and beauty, damage and healing, because ultimately our lives constantly shift between these polarities as well. The ultimate knowledge of the poems is that as we age and experience loss, we must retain our wildness--the wolf's wilderness--inside us. In this way, the wolf becomes a symbol of a threshold, a transformative space.

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