Heteroglossia |
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| Author:
| Illich, Lindsay
Illich, Lindsay |
| Prepared for Publication by:
| Mays, Amanda |
| Artist:
| Sillman, Amy |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9906856-9-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2016 |
| Publisher: | Anchor & Plume Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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In heteroglossia, the poet enacts a kind of self-mapping through influence: from the coordinates of people and places (real and imaginary) she looks for where and who she is. The world of heteroglossia is populated with fellow writers, the F train, sisters and mothers, "the most beautiful Taco Bell in the world," mountains, post-Katrina New Orleans, West Texas, as well dimensions of season and the diurnal, "weather" being "central to what it is to be human." And from them and the...
More DescriptionIn heteroglossia, the poet enacts a kind of self-mapping through influence: from the coordinates of people and places (real and imaginary) she looks for where and who she is. The world of heteroglossia is populated with fellow writers, the F train, sisters and mothers, "the most beautiful Taco Bell in the world," mountains, post-Katrina New Orleans, West Texas, as well dimensions of season and the diurnal, "weather" being "central to what it is to be human." And from them and the making of poems, an optimism about the world's inconclusiveness and a looking ahead to the future answer-words, the ongoingness without a telos except for making.