
Gravity
Allen Fisher(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 20. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-84471-034-8 (ISBN)
Description
Gravity presents the first five books of poems from the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, started in 1982 and scheduled for completion in 2005. Gravity includes the books Brixton Fractals, Breadboard, Civic Crime, Dispossession & Cure, and Fizz. The sequence is an inversion of empirical demands. Each untitled poem has been relabelled with a jazz dance from a list of dances, from African Boog to Zip. The design of the overall work uses the model of a crushed cylinder, the process of a crumbling wall and a variety of contingent energies, interrupted narratives demonstrating crowd-outs, descriptions of shifts in focal consciousness, fleeting interruptions that damage continuities and expectations with named actors; Burglar, Badger, Fireman, Mathematician. These narratives are supported by decoherent syntax, moving positions that question strident notions of coherence and over-determined incoherences. This is a syntax that sometimes avoids and sometimes embraces tried stanza structures through the use of unreliable sentences and designed forms that exercise deliberate breaks from golden mean or idealised exactness. The poems rely on inconsistency leading to prepared and unexpected transformations that link or rhyme into following or previous poems. One preparation involved labelling a cylinder with stanza indications to provide sonority, bending the cylinder in upon itself and producing new damaged sonorities from the crushed indications. This transformed geometry energises the process of aesthetic productions in each reader's involvement. One activity transforms words by sound, another by meaning and another by inversion or critique of its proposals. One unrealised proposal is to demonstrate truth. Another is to confirm a lack of reliance upon expectation. The subjects bridge biotechnology and quantum physics through a system of urban gardening and leaking streets. The proposals demand civility and are preposterous.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Eleventh Grade, Interest Age: From 13 to 21 years
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-034-8 (9781844710348)
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Person
Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, lives in Hereford. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited in many shows including Hereford 2013, London 2003 and York 1993. Examples are in the Tate, the Living Museum, Iceland, King's Archive London and various private collections. His last four books were Place, Entanglement, Gravity and Proposals.
Content
1. Brixton Fractals
Banda
Around the World
Ballin' the Jack
African Twist
accretion
Atkins Stomp
African Boog
Bel Air
Boogaloo
acuity
Boogie Stomp
Black Bottom
Boogie Break
Birdland
2. Breadboard
Boogie Woogie
Bop
coda to Boogie Woogie and Bop for Albert Ayler
Boston Monkey
Break-a-leg
Breaks
brend
Busoni
Butor. Passing Time again
Bristol Stomp
Bugaloo
Buzzards and Bees
Buzz Step
Buzzard
Bunny Hop
Buzzard Glide
Bumble Bee
3. Civic Crime
Cakewalk
Camel Walk
Cha Cha
Charleston
Charley-Bop
Chicken
4. Dispossession & Cure
Dirty Dog
Accounts
Choo Choo
Chug
Chorus Hook
chreod
cigar
Convalescence
Circle
Conga
Continental Walk
Crab Walk
Collimate
Curie
dance
disk
duck-pillow
Dog
Work Consciousness Commodity: Three Kinds of Perception
1. Ditty Bop Walk
2. Dixieland One Step
3. Double Shuffle
5. Fizz
Grind
Fish-Tail
Frug
Eagle Rock
Ferneyhough
Funky Broadway
Fox Trot
Freeze
Goose Neck
Heebie Jeebies
Dispossession & Cure 2
Horse
Huckle Buck
Hully-Gully
Banda
Around the World
Ballin' the Jack
African Twist
accretion
Atkins Stomp
African Boog
Bel Air
Boogaloo
acuity
Boogie Stomp
Black Bottom
Boogie Break
Birdland
2. Breadboard
Boogie Woogie
Bop
coda to Boogie Woogie and Bop for Albert Ayler
Boston Monkey
Break-a-leg
Breaks
brend
Busoni
Butor. Passing Time again
Bristol Stomp
Bugaloo
Buzzards and Bees
Buzz Step
Buzzard
Bunny Hop
Buzzard Glide
Bumble Bee
3. Civic Crime
Cakewalk
Camel Walk
Cha Cha
Charleston
Charley-Bop
Chicken
4. Dispossession & Cure
Dirty Dog
Accounts
Choo Choo
Chug
Chorus Hook
chreod
cigar
Convalescence
Circle
Conga
Continental Walk
Crab Walk
Collimate
Curie
dance
disk
duck-pillow
Dog
Work Consciousness Commodity: Three Kinds of Perception
1. Ditty Bop Walk
2. Dixieland One Step
3. Double Shuffle
5. Fizz
Grind
Fish-Tail
Frug
Eagle Rock
Ferneyhough
Funky Broadway
Fox Trot
Freeze
Goose Neck
Heebie Jeebies
Dispossession & Cure 2
Horse
Huckle Buck
Hully-Gully