Cloud / Ridge - Softcover

Ratcliffe, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609640721 ISBN 13: 9781609640729

Publisher: Blazevox Books, 2011

Synopsis

Poetry. "Ratcliffe's site-based poetry channels the complex, intermeshing, and endlessly variable dimensions of place. Its calendar perpetually marks this very day. Things seen and heard through the 'window' of the shifting present include weathers; birds; planets and constellations; insects, animals and plants; soundscape; shape and color; land forms; men, women and children; sentences from reading; poetics. All inheres in the music and the metaphysics of these pages—all and nothing, but the words, placed exactly so"—Jonathan Skinner.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Ratcliffe's more than twenty books of poetry include NEW YORK NOTES (1983), DISTANCE (1986), [WHERE LATE THE SWEET] BIRDS SANG (1989), SOUND/(SYSTEM) (2002), PORTRAITS & REPETITION (2002), REAL (2007), CONVERSATION (2011), and CLOUD / RIDGE (2011). He is also the author of three books of literary criticism: Campion: On Song (1981), LISTENING TO READING (2000), and READING THE UNSEEN: (OFFSTAGE) HAMLET (2009). He lives in Bolinas, California, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blazevox Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609640721
• ISBN 13: 9781609640729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 482