In the Mode of Disappearance: Poems - Softcover

Weinert, Jonathan

 
9780976718574: In the Mode of Disappearance: Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 097671857X ISBN 13: 9780976718574
Publisher: Nightboat Books, 2008

Synopsis

Jonathan Weinert s award-winning collection, In the Mode of Disappearance, transcends contemporary categories of traditional and experimental, existing in a mode in which the quality of thought itself is paramount.

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Review

“Jonathan Weinert’s award-winning collection, In the Mode of Disappearance, transcends contemporary categories of traditional and experimental, existing in a mode in which the quality of thought itself is paramount. Like Wallace Stevens and William Blake before him, his is a poetry that reaches the summit of philosophy without being shorn of song. Throughout the collection, Weinert draws upon a range of classical and postmodern strategies, dexterously integrating them with a series of non-poetic modes and constructs (including the four cardinal directions, the nine non-zero digits and the major arcana of the Tarot) in a humane effort to build a bulwark against the forces of fragmentation and disappearance. In so doing, Weinert’s poems forge a continuum of human knowledge in which, as Edith Sitwell once wrote, “the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind” are one.”―Brenda Hillman

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Publisher
Nightboat Books
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
097671857X
ISBN 13 
9780976718574
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104