twofold (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Book 81 of 86: Hugh MacLennan Poetry

Carson, Edward

 
9780228020097: twofold (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0228020093 ISBN 13: 9780228020097
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The poet Charles Simic wrote, “Short poems: be brief and tell us everything.” Edward Carson’s extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych – or twofold – poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Within the two sections of twofold, “dialogues” and “binaries,” the form of the diptych shapes language and meaning as paired poems engage each other across the margins of facing pages. Caroline Bem, author of A Moveable Form, writes: “The diptych, you see, is beautiful. It is symmetry and difference, doubling and mirroring, binarism and seriality. It is the form of paradox, both open and closed, free and contained.” Negotiating surprising twinning combinations, comparisons, and outcomes, the poems in twofold are lively, thought-provoking, and playful interchanges that are also mischievously literate, questioning, and intuitive.

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About the Author

Edward Carson is the author of several poetry collections including twofold, movingparts, whereabouts, Look Here Look Away Look Again, and Knots. He lives in Toronto.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0228020093
ISBN 13 
9780228020097
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
96