An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where
language and landscape converge In this strongly visual and
environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and
translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language
in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three-dimensional space.
Composed and printed in a landscape format, these minimal, quiet,
playful, meditative, and open-ended poems are experimental in form
and inviting in subject. Drawing inspiration from poets like A. R.
Ammons, Lorine Niedecker, Gustaf Sobin, and Jean Valentine, and
visual artists like Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, and Cecilia Vicuna,
Gladding discovers exciting spatial possibilities within the page
itself by exploiting white space and varying typefaces. As the page
opens into the compositional field that Mallarme, Ponge, and others
conceived it to be, words constellate around bolded through lines
to offer multiple, interwoven meanings, interacting with each other
and the reader, who moves freely among them, to make poems that are
spatial, nonlinear, and different with each reading. And, adding
yet another dimension to the collection, many of the poems have
facing-page French versions. "Landscape-oriented" in every sense, I
entered without words is an ambitious, innovative, and striking
collection by a major poet.
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