Birds Flock Fish School |
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Author:
| Ellenbogen, George Carson, Edward |
ISBN: | 978-1-55065-359-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
Publisher: | Vehicule Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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"An immense precision is necessary," announces Edward Carson in
Bird Flock Fish School , a collection of poetry that sees language as an example of "emergence," the spontaneous interaction of behaviours by which birds flock and fish travel in schools. These shimmering poems--which attempt to surprise the reader out of familiar ways of understanding nature, mortality, loss and love--articulate a vast, roving philosophical curiosity channelled through urgent form. Using a voice...
More Description"An immense precision is necessary," announces Edward Carson in Bird Flock Fish School , a collection of poetry that sees language as an example of "emergence," the spontaneous interaction of behaviours by which birds flock and fish travel in schools. These shimmering poems--which attempt to surprise the reader out of familiar ways of understanding nature, mortality, loss and love--articulate a vast, roving philosophical curiosity channelled through urgent form. Using a voice both sophisticated and simple, forged in unadorned couplets tuned to near-hallucinatory clarity, Carson's poems invent a new way of perceiving, a world where "everything unites, at odds with itself."