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Particle and Wave (Phoenix Poets)
Benjamin Landry
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Description for Particle and Wave (Phoenix Poets)
Paperback. The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, this book is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. In among the lapses, deer stooped on their stilts to eat the tulips which, under these circumstances, turned away from the source like moths losing themselves in folded wool. Are we alone? If so, Particle and Wave insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements-a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry-unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, personal, and existential. Based on a logic ... Read more
The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. In among the lapses, deer stooped on their stilts to eat the tulips which, under these circumstances, turned away from the source like moths losing themselves in folded wool. Are we alone? If so, Particle and Wave insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements-a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry-unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, personal, and existential. Based on a logic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226096193
SKU
V9780226096193
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Ref
99-1
About Benjamin Landry
Benjamin Landry is a Meijer Post-MFA Fellow at the University of Michigan and the author of An Ocean Away. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Reviews for Particle and Wave (Phoenix Poets)
"The poetry of everyday (and not so everyday) objects has seldom been as strikingly realized as in this exciting first collection." (John Ashbery)"