Symphony for Human Transport - Softcover

Samuels, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848615477 ISBN 13: 9781848615472

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2017

Synopsis

Symphony for Human Transport records a sustained plunge into the imagina-tive elixir of a dream. The dream starts with a waking vision – ‘the door of the train flew open’ – and continues as reverberations in the sensorium, the seat of felt thought. With the sonnet as its anchor note, the symphony blends the machine’s body and the garden, crash and after-sound. 

“A moment in fast-forward and in fast-reverse, a moment suspended and dilating, a moment gathering into physical thought, thought open to the inrush of percepts time orchestrates as feeling and disperses into a fading mood: a moment’s invention of the one who sees, the one who reads, that one a passenger of the moment, one among many, or in another’s dream that passes through, passes along. This book is transporting. It thinks into every connective, with every connective tensed between forward movement and the desire to stay put and opening. Again, fast and slow, Lisa Samuels is a poet of time, and we are fortunate to have her time through this beautiful book.”  —John Wilkinson

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Samuels has a PhD from the University of Virginia and currently teaches at The University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has published four chapbooks and ten books, most recently Mama Mortality Corridos (Holloway 2010), Gender City (Shearsman 2011), Wild Dialectics (Shearsman 2012), Anti M (Chax Press 2013) and Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman 2017). She is also the author of essays and edited work in poetry, theory, and critical practice, and has produced a 2-CD recording with soundscapes of her 2009 book Tomorrowland (Shearsman). Having lived in various parts of the United States, as well as in Sweden, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Malaysia, Spain, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, she is interested in transculturalism, especially as embodied in languages and the digitas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848615477
• ISBN 13: 9781848615472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76