Hypoderm: Notes to Myself - Couverture souple

Chan, Weyman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889226377 ISBN 13 : 9780889226371

Editeur : Talonbooks, 2010

Synopsis

The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple--approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled "notes to myself," Hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet's skin--that remind the reader that poetry is documentation and speculation, not a sentimental fabrication of the rapture (rupture) of our "end times."

We live in an age of anxiety, where social order and the imagination are as alienated as they have ever been, creating our estrangement from a sane and necessary privacy the cause of which the poet locates in the anthropocentric doctrine that man has been divinely ordained to take dominion over the earth. Chan's lines "What monster taught Adam / to see a bird and say the word" echo those of Blake; his "the name that can be named is not the real name" recall the words of Milton; his "shouldn't the ?nal / translation of any word in any language / be silence" invoke the teachings of Buddha.

Drawing on cosmologies as disparate as molecular biology, Chinese and Mayan celestial cycles, and the conflict of Horus and Seth in Egyptian mythology, Chan finds everywhere the recognition that: "As all prey let out / sounds of deepest obligation / when they're caught, so / the binding surrounds."
Every living thing is already looking over its shoulder in its necessarily parasitic conditions for existence. It is within this dance of coordinates, as biological drives encounter mental constructs, that these poems document how micro and macro worlds collide, and speculate that just as our somatic mitochondria were once free-?oating protozoa that got inside us and adapted to our metabolism, so the earth's green skin is being infected by the drills and dragnets of our Nietzschean will to power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Weyman Chan was born in Calgary in 1963, to immigrant parents from China. He has published poems and short stories in a wide variety of literary journals and anthologies. He won the 2002 National Magazine Awards silver prize for his poem "At Work," and the 2003 Alberta Book Award for his first book of poetry, Before a Blue Sky Moon. His second book, Noise from the Laundry, was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Award for Poetry and the 2009 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Talonbooks
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889226377
• ISBN 13: 9780889226371
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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