
The Long White Cloud of Unknowing
Lisa Samuels(Author)
Chax Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-1-946104-18-2 (ISBN)
Description
A woman with a suitcase of meat waits in a room for one day and into the night. Inside the room, language surrounds her. What is the stone phone, what images anchor her sentence? As heresy and authority intensify, she readies to open the door.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Arizona
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-946104-18-2 (9781946104182)
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Lisa Samuels has a PhD from the University of Virginia and currently teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. She publishes essays and edited work on poetry, theory, and critical practice. She is the author of several books of poetry-- including WILD DIALECTICS (Shearsman Books, 01/01/2012), TOMORROWLAND (Shearsman Books, 01/01/2009), THE INVENTION OF CULTURE (Shearsman Books, 01/01/2008), and THE SEVEN VOICES (O Books, 01/01/1998)-- as well as a creative nonfiction book, Anti M, forthcoming from Chax Press. Her current projects include an essay collection, Modernism Is Not Enough, an audio recording of TOMORROWLAND with soundscapes, and a modular novel experiment, Tender Girl. Having lived in various parts of the United States, as well as in Sweden, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, Malaysia, and now New Zealand/Aotearoa, she is interested in transculturalism, especially as embodied in language and the digitas.