Void Studies, Rachel Boast's extraordinary new collection, realizes
a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had
proposed, but never written. Etudes neantes was to consist of poems
written as musical etudes; these would not convey any direct
message - but instead summon the abstract spirit of their subject.
This 'impossible project' has been completed by Boast in the most
astonishing way, and in doing so she has increased the expressive
possibilities of poetry itself. These tone poems are indeed works
of pure music - but despite their esoteric nature are by no means
'difficult' in the usual sense: instead they conjure the
recognizable states, emotions, moods, ambiances and strange
atmospheres that lend our lives meaning, and together comprise a
kind of lexicon of feeling. Void Studies is an airy and beautiful
book - one in which Boast has spun a pure music to both ask and
answer the most profound questions poetry can frame.
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