The Unfinished |
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Author:
| DuCharme, Mark |
ISBN: | 978-1-60964-140-5 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | BlazeVox Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. "THE UNFINISHED is constituted by movement and desire, by speaking that unsays itself: by knowing, if only provisionally, that the 'energy is in the body / Blooming when we speak.' Not a bloom, but a blooming: this ambitious book unfolds and unfolds through the dual actions of pursuit and escape ('Is meaning embedded in fleeing?'). For here, to be finished would be dishonest to the Real. So THE UNFINISHED is a veritable catalogue of deliberately partial poetics and metaphysics...
More DescriptionPoetry. "THE UNFINISHED is constituted by movement and desire, by speaking that unsays itself: by knowing, if only provisionally, that the 'energy is in the body / Blooming when we speak.' Not a bloom, but a blooming: this ambitious book unfolds and unfolds through the dual actions of pursuit and escape ('Is meaning embedded in fleeing?'). For here, to be finished would be dishonest to the Real. So THE UNFINISHED is a veritable catalogue of deliberately partial poetics and metaphysics which alternately affirm and balk in suspicion at world, history, or word.
"Ghosts of experience occupy this poetry, placing pressure on logic until it morphs into the assertive speculations that force new logics. Moving through a startling range of tone and formal shape, THE UNFINISHED erects its tower of Babel, keenly attuned to 'What's still not real, but missing.' Mark DuCharme acknowledges that living means being continually erased and yet he has the guts and grace to proceed anyway, 'To piece the language shreds / into a body.' His poetry enters our own breath, blooming."—Elizabeth Robinson
"Mark DuCharme's beautiful poems teach us to read all over again: mystery, the situation of person, the texture of dream and the texture of awareness: THE UNFINISHED is a tough book, a necessary book."—Joseph Lease