
Knot
Forrest Gander(Author)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Published on 15. December 2022
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-1-55659-671-1 (ISBN)
Description
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander responds to the provocative photographs of Jack Shear.
The elements are timeless and fundamental—a male nude and a piece of black linen—and the photographic results are miraculous. Within Knot are twenty-three lush black and white photographs of a body and cloth performing a provocative ballet, a wrestling match, a tense sequence of appearances and disappearances that immediately take on symbolic weight. When poet Forrest Gander first encountered these images, he asked Jack Shear for more. As Gander recalls, the photographs arrived “dreamy, violent, mythic, and elemental… I set them up around the room and knew I wanted to write my way into them." The result is a profound dialogue between word and image, observation and inspiration, imagination and intellect. “What do you see?" one poem asks. "A divinity wrung from a black cloud."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-671-1 (9781556596711)
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Persons
Forrest Gander is a cross-genre writer and translator andwinner of the Pulitzer Prize for the poetry book Be With (New Directions, 2019).He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts,the Guggenheim Foundation, and PEN America. A former professor at BrownUniversity, Gander currently lives in California.