Glass Enclosure (Wesleyan Poetry) - Hardcover

Hartman, Charles O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081952218X ISBN 13: 9780819522184

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Following the tenacious imagination through all its methods and obsessions, this brilliant new collection by a poet who is also a critic of jazz form and free-verse prosody speaks to the very core of all lyric concerns. Charles O. Hartman's poems are cool and dizzying, a dark, witty fusion of jazz sensibility and computer-generated texts. The title poem, dedicated to the late Bud Powell, interleaves an extended monologue with blocked prose, sonnets, and lyrics. In the center of the book, free verse and metrical forms ravel and unravel in a moving exploration of the spoken word. The final long poem is a meditative satire on computers, colonialism, and the pressures of history. With innovative grace, Glass Enclosure confronts our very systems of understanding, the languages that enclose us even as they reveal the world.

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Review:

"This remarkable book plays lightly and profoundly upon instruments very old and new. If poets are lucky to study everything, Hartman's wide-ranging and inventive mind is one of the luckiest writing. His poems are our good fortune." --Boston Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 081952218X
• ISBN 13: 9780819522184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 84