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Interference Pattern
J. O. Morgan
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Description for Interference Pattern
Paperback. Acts out its own subjects - dualities, ambiguities, boundaries - through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference, this is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact - depending, as with everything else, on your angle of entry. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is a book that acts out its own subjects - dualities, ambiguities, boundaries - through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference. This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact - depending, as with ... Read more
At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is a book that acts out its own subjects - dualities, ambiguities, boundaries - through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference. This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact - depending, as with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910702024
SKU
V9781910702024
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Ref
99-94
About J. O. Morgan
J.O. Morgan lives on a small farm in the Scottish Borders. He is the author of six collections of poetry, each a single book-length poem: Natural Mechanical (2009), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, its sequel, Long Cuts (2011), shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Award, ... Read more
Reviews for Interference Pattern
Eliot comes repeatedly to mind in reading Interference Pattern because, in its tragic grandeur and sophistication, it is a poem that could come to be for the twenty-first century what The Waste Land was to the twentieth.
David Collard
Times Literary Supplement
This collection carries you, unnerves and stimulates. It absolutely meets TS Eliot's ... Read more
David Collard
Times Literary Supplement
This collection carries you, unnerves and stimulates. It absolutely meets TS Eliot's ... Read more