The Opposite of Work |
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| Author:
| Behm-Steinberg, Hugh |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4793-4451-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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The JackLeg Press Poetry SeriesHugh Steinberg's intimate, honest poems, labor toward a personal mythology where the return to Eden is a psychic process, "erotic as a mind working," of engaging the fallen world and body with casual grace and equanimity where "[d]ivinity pervades even the slightest of acts." These poems render a taut surface in time, registering the movement of sensation as it happens in continuum Bergsonian durée, "the holiest of thoughts as you are / thinking them"-not...
More DescriptionThe JackLeg Press Poetry SeriesHugh Steinberg's intimate, honest poems, labor toward a personal mythology where the return to Eden is a psychic process, "erotic as a mind working," of engaging the fallen world and body with casual grace and equanimity where "[d]ivinity pervades even the slightest of acts." These poems render a taut surface in time, registering the movement of sensation as it happens in continuum Bergsonian durée, "the holiest of thoughts as you are / thinking them"-not as performative gesture but poetry's necessary work of inquiry-toward-restoration-in-making.Behm-Steinberg desires nothing less than a heaven in language.-Chad Sweeney