Isbn: 9781772013658 - a future perfect (9 resultados)

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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition in FINE condition. Contains a tipped in card signed by the author addressed to Susie Linfield, social and cultural theorist, at New York University. All pages clean without any underlining, notations or folds. Actual book is pictured. See images provided. Synopsis: The constraint-based poems in this debut collection are written in the future-perfect tense, used as a way of bending time and playing with non-linearity. They challenge the self imagined as a unified monolith by pulling language apart, dissecting idioms and speech, then reassembling it in new and unconventional ways, using language as a medium not only for its literal sense, but also its auditory dimension. Cadence is another focus, as the ordering and pairing of slightly dissonant words creates moments of the uncanny, altering perceptions to push language beyond functional, ordinary usage. As we dismantle the linguistic binds that keep us stuck in traditional templates and labels, A Future Perfect moves us forward, freeing our inner landscapes, enabling us to dispense with the superfluous spokes of our world views, in an effort to continuously reinvent ourselves. Imagery of sky, landscape, organic hollows, biological crevices, architectural edifices, surfaces and topologies are used to evoke a kinesthetic and tactile sense of space. Finally, calling on nature lends emotional and psychic valence, giving contour to the basic human drives of love and death Eros and Thanatos that propel these poems. Signed by Author(s).…

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 96 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.32 inches. In Stock.

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Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condición: New.