Glossodelia Attract
Preverbs
Published on 8. July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-58177-143-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Words say too much to let you know the truth.'' George Quasha's torqued, enigmatic proverbs create unlikely balances among discrepant engagements. The vectors of these marvelous poems work at cross purposes, keeping each other aloft. These are sparkling aphoristic aporias for a new age in an old time. "Poetry," says Quasha, "resists immortality with difficulty." And also with wit and charm. Be here now, in which case immortality will take care of itself. Charles Bernstein, author of Attack of the Difficult Poems If William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" are poetry, then George Quasha's preverbs are like a close cousin. It's core question is: can poetry say the unsayable? Like Blake's work, Glossodelic Attractors makes you wonder: what is poetry? A well established poetic tradition both modern and post-modern-some call it experimental-starts its definition with: poetry is not what you think it is. Its work is journeying inside language, as if passing through a distant country or else another reality. It conveys news of alternate dimensions showing through in the here-and-now, embedded inside our everyday thoughts and speaking.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58177-143-5 (9781581771435)
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George Quasha is a poet, artist, writer, and musician. His books include, in poetry, four books of Preverbs: Verbal Paradise (Zasterle: 2011), The Daimon of the Moment (Tal-isman House: 2015), Things Done for Themselves (Marsh Hawk: 2015), Glossodelia Attract (Station Hill: 2015); Ainu Dreams (Station Hill: 1999, with Chie Hasegawa [Ham-mons]), and Somapoetics (Sumac: 1973). His six books on art include An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works and Writings (Ediciones Polígrafa: 2009, with Charles Stein; foreword by Lynne Cooke). He has co-edited three anthologies including America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre- Columbian Times to the Present (with Jerome Rothen-berg; Random House: 1973; Station Hill: 2011). His visual art, represented in Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic Books: 2006), has been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Baumgartner Gallery (New York), Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SUNY New Paltz), and the Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame). His work in video art, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), includes art is/poetry is/music is (Speaking Portraits), for which he has recorded over a thousand artists, poets, and musicians in eleven countries (www.art-is-international.org). Recipient of an NEA Fellowship (poetry), he is co-publisher with Susan Quasha at Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York. See also quasha.com and vimeo.com.