Book Made of Forest - Couverture souple

Stanley, Jared

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844715582 ISBN 13 : 9781844715589

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Comprised of lyrics, mock journal entries, prose portraits and odes, Book Made of Forest answers the "summons and challenge" of being both human and animal, urban and rural, cultured and philistine, formal and ruinous, willful and acted-upon. Jared Stanley strikes at the absurd thingness of things, rings out their histories, traces their loss in the 6th extinction, figures his voluminous overhearing into poems rhetorical and fragmented, mournful and comedic. People skulk, animals talk, trash multiplies. Contemporary California--it's art, scavengers, landscapes, weeds, pollution – effects its lyric smudges. Yet Book Made of Forest finds them all inexplicably desirous. For when the weather is found man-made, a function of our emotions, the pathetic fallacy returns, not as a symptom of undue personal imposition onto the landscape, but as the collective by-product of not having any god to blame. Without a deity, Book Made of Forest is the naked almer--"I'll wear any greeting from dirt, as if a hide"--finding its vision in the midst of things that simply happen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jared Stanley is the author of Book Made of Forest, and four chapbooks. With Lauren Levin and Catherine Meng, he edits Mrs. Maybe. With Matthew Hebert and Gabie Strong, he is a member of the art collective Unmanned Minerals. He was born in Arizona and has lived most of his life in California. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844715582
• ISBN 13: 9781844715589
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible