Human Directional
Published on 11. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9903221-6-0 (ISBN)
Description
Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering new directions for the mind, heart, and world. Raptosh points the way to what Montaigne called "unlearning how to be a slave". With the deadly precision of the fey, Human Directional reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring - and often exploding - its most sacred memes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9903221-6-0 (9780990322160)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Diane Raptosh's fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac, (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016), the highest literary honor in the state. In 2018 she received the Idaho Governor's Arts Award in Excellence. A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum security prisons. She teaches creative writing and runs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at The College of Idaho. Her most recent collection of poems, Human Directional, was released by Etruscan Press in 2016.
Content
I First-Person Triangular
Sign Twirler's Guide to the Multiverse
The Hidden Lives of Human Signs
Sign Twirler Stands Like Michelangelo's Man in a Circle
Digital Billboard with Fidgeting Images
Of Genders and Genres
Interspace
Husband
Traffic Circle
The Three-Body Problem
Your Attention, Please
Rugged Western Individualism in 3D Display
At the Symposium on the Necessity of Beauty
Enter the Kingdom
Gliding into the Blur
Junction
The Inner Coat
Ballroom-Dance with a Sign in Order to Point It in the Right Direction
Sign Twirler Balances Six Rectangles at Once
II The Way to Green Air
Views from a Former Contortionist
Written in Squid Ink on a 48-Inch Talon/Bird Claw
From Staple to Symbol
Motherhood as Momentary Characteristic
Intersectional
Ghost Sign
Broadsheet from the Family Bed
Scrolling Light Box with the 12 O'Clock News
Sign Twirler Crunches Some Numbers
Step on a Crack, You Break
Ours is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope
Human Arrow with Necks of Trilliums
Direction Versus Bearing
Poster in Present Perfect Continuous Negative Tense
Light Wind Lifts Language's Dress Up
We Need a Case for Doing Good in Minute Particulars
Clean Garage Rag
Fire Sign
III Ninety-Degree Angle to the Chest
The Hope of Sound
Fifth and State
Experiment on Backs of Soup Labels
[ ] Is a Sign That Means Hug for the Horse Forequarters of the Hippocampus
True Life is Lived When Tiny Changes Occur, Says Tolstoy
Art Must be Useful to the People
A Sign Said There Are 16 Million Eyes in the City
What Wittgenstein's College Friend Frank Says
Directional Dressed as the Statue of Liberty
I Jump and Think Like an Endurance Athlete
Alternative Employment
Straight Direction Along a Great Circle
Department of Space Studies
World Upside-Down
Acknowledgements
Sign Twirler's Guide to the Multiverse
The Hidden Lives of Human Signs
Sign Twirler Stands Like Michelangelo's Man in a Circle
Digital Billboard with Fidgeting Images
Of Genders and Genres
Interspace
Husband
Traffic Circle
The Three-Body Problem
Your Attention, Please
Rugged Western Individualism in 3D Display
At the Symposium on the Necessity of Beauty
Enter the Kingdom
Gliding into the Blur
Junction
The Inner Coat
Ballroom-Dance with a Sign in Order to Point It in the Right Direction
Sign Twirler Balances Six Rectangles at Once
II The Way to Green Air
Views from a Former Contortionist
Written in Squid Ink on a 48-Inch Talon/Bird Claw
From Staple to Symbol
Motherhood as Momentary Characteristic
Intersectional
Ghost Sign
Broadsheet from the Family Bed
Scrolling Light Box with the 12 O'Clock News
Sign Twirler Crunches Some Numbers
Step on a Crack, You Break
Ours is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope
Human Arrow with Necks of Trilliums
Direction Versus Bearing
Poster in Present Perfect Continuous Negative Tense
Light Wind Lifts Language's Dress Up
We Need a Case for Doing Good in Minute Particulars
Clean Garage Rag
Fire Sign
III Ninety-Degree Angle to the Chest
The Hope of Sound
Fifth and State
Experiment on Backs of Soup Labels
[ ] Is a Sign That Means Hug for the Horse Forequarters of the Hippocampus
True Life is Lived When Tiny Changes Occur, Says Tolstoy
Art Must be Useful to the People
A Sign Said There Are 16 Million Eyes in the City
What Wittgenstein's College Friend Frank Says
Directional Dressed as the Statue of Liberty
I Jump and Think Like an Endurance Athlete
Alternative Employment
Straight Direction Along a Great Circle
Department of Space Studies
World Upside-Down
Acknowledgements