The Desire Line: Memory & Impermanence - Softcover

Davisson, Sven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160864104X ISBN 13: 9781608641048

Publisher: Rebel Satori Press, 2017

Synopsis

Sven Davisson's first full length collection of poetry The Desire Line is a textual and photographic meditation on memory and impermanence. 

We now live in an unprecedented world of images. The gilt icon of ages past, the altar triptych with its eternal dramatis personae, was a singular awe-inducing experience. Modernity as encapsulated in the endless reproducibility of images and words has given rise to a new magical landscape, personal and pagan in its fetishism. Susan Sontag writes in On Photography, "All photographs are memento mori". They capture an instance in time that will never occur again. Living or dead, the faces that look back at us from family snapshots are no more. Time has moved on, that fractional moment is past. Every photograph is an evidentiary exhibit of impermanence, itself impermanent as light slowly fades that which light and chemistry created.

Sven Davisson's poetry is a bracingly unique combination of Buddhism, eroticism, urbanity, mythology, and modernity. Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Frank O'Hara all seem to speak again through him. --Jeff Mann, author of Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology

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Sven Davisson's poetry is a bracingly unique combination of Buddhism, eroticism, urbanity, mythology, and modernity. Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Frank O'Hara all seem to speak again through him. --eff Mann, author of Ash: Poems from Norse Mythology

Davisson is not only an omnivorous reader and spiritual scholar, but he boldly merges the essence of Eastern wisdom with the western occult tradition, synthesizing the two with extraordinary originality and grace, and providing us all with a glorious body of work all too rare in this decadent and material age. --Trebor Healey, auhtor of A Horse Named Sorrow

Sven Davisson's work is erotic, haunting, spiritual and unafraid to take chances. --Emanuel Xavier, author of Radiance

Edition details

• Publisher: Rebel Satori Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160864104X
• ISBN 13: 9781608641048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130