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Arc Tangent (Paperback)
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Arc Tangent (Paperback)
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Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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Arc Tangent is composed of two prose-poem sequences, "Arc Tangent"
and "Table of Primaries," hybrid works made up of prose, poetry and
fragments collaged from a working notebook, and occasionally using
appropriated text. Both pieces show evidence of Selland's deep
roots in the American Modernist tradition and his lifelong
experience with the language and poetry of Japan. His writing is
dense, allusive, philosophically informed, and combines the
surprise and formal interest of collage with a striking unity of
tone, a haibun-like lyricism, and a powerful engagement with issues
of displacement, exile and "at-home-ness." "Eric Selland's lyric
work possesses a poise and nuance reminiscent of the French
symbolist vision of Japonisme, wherein the slightest brushstroke or
flute-breath causes the entire universe to veer. This is writing
that moves along the verge of the unsayable, enacting a deep study
of the mystery of everyday life" (Andrew Joron). "Arc Tangent's
exquisite collage challenges our perception like a delicate puzzle
whose truths intersect, changing as they move through the present
moment, yet fitting together perfectly even as they pass. Your hand
finds comfort turning these pages, image disappears into question
then reappears profoundly unanswered, as sound submerges amid clear
water" (Colleen Lookingbill).
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