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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Publication Date
- 2019-03-15
- Pages
- 127
- ISBN
- 9781732772106
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Letter Machine Editions Nfp
ISBN-10
173277210X
ISBN-13
9781732772106
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038795563
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides
Number of Pages
127 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
5.2 in
Item Width
7.5 in
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Trade
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""Finally an oracle with a gorgeous sense of humor. Jessica Laser's vision is singular, her voice at once formidable and intimate. Its impeccable wit imparts a bracing metaphysics. "I said to myself as a child do not / Mistake the ghost you fear for / The ghost you are." Here intellect sings. Everywhere agile, coruscating syntax proves music isn't only a form of beauty, it's also a mode of inquiry. Rhyme tracks relations inaccessible to reason. Repetition conducts its tests of the present, its shadow appraisals of the past's part in the future. The visceral pleasure one experiences reading these poems corresponds to the depth of their ambition: to fathom human feeling--its contradictions, its infinite shifts--and "see how full of changes change is.""
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Poetry. Finally an oracle with a gorgeous sense of humor. Jessica Laser's vision is singular, her voice at once formidable and intimate. Its impeccable wit imparts a bracing metaphysics. 'I said to myself as a child do not / Mistake the ghost you fear for / The ghost you are.' Here intellect sings. Everywhere agile, coruscating syntax proves music isn't only a form of beauty, it's also a mode of inquiry. Rhyme tracks relations inaccessible to reason. Repetition conducts its tests of the present, its shadow appraisals of the past's part in the future. The visceral pleasure one experiences reading these poems corresponds to the depth of their ambition: to fathom human feeling--its contradictions, its infinite shifts--and 'see how full of changes change is.'--Margaret Ross, Poetry. "Finally an oracle with a gorgeous sense of humor. Jessica Laser's vision is singular, her voice at once formidable and intimate. Its impeccable wit imparts a bracing metaphysics. 'I said to myself as a child do not / Mistake the ghost you fear for / The ghost you are.' Here intellect sings. Everywhere agile, coruscating syntax proves music isn't only a form of beauty, it's also a mode of inquiry. Rhyme tracks relations inaccessible to reason. Repetition conducts its tests of the present, its shadow appraisals of the past's part in the future. The visceral pleasure one experiences reading these poems corresponds to the depth of their ambition: to fathom human feeling--its contradictions, its infinite shifts--and 'see how full of changes change is.'"--Margaret Ross, Jessica Laser's debut full-length collection of poetry There's a scene in Tolstoy's War and Peace in which two people fall in love at a dinner party while the rest of the company makes small talk about the military general Sergei Kuzmich, who only appears in this scene. Kuzmich had repeatedly broken down in tears of joy in front of the state council, trying to read aloud a commendatory letter from the sovereign that began, "Sergei Kuzmich! From all sides rumors reach me..." Those not involved in falling in love at the party laugh, appearing involved in this gossip, but, as Tolstoy describes it, "no matter how indifferent or inattentive to them they seemed, the feeling for some reason was...that the anecdote about Sergei Kuzmich, and the laughter, and the food were all a pretense, and all the power of attention of the entire company was directed only at this couple." Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides takes a poem to be a kind of pretense, an "anecdote about Sergei Kuzmich," the thing we say when we can't talk about being in love. And we can never talk about being in love, because, as psychoanalyst Adam Phillips says, "it is not the kind of thing that can be known (it isn't information)." These poems aim to reach beyond information--to speak from where Sergei Kuzmich leaves off--in order to give voice to the kinds of experience that, to become knowable, require the pretense of art.
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