
Inseparable
Poems 1995-2005
Lewis Warsh(Author)
Granary Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-887123-78-5 (ISBN)
Description
Inseparable collects poems written between 1995 and 2005 by the New York poet, editor and novelist Lewis Warsh. Strongly identified with New York since the 1960s, when he co-founded Angel Hair magazine with Anne Waldman, Warsh makes poems from the city's linguistic fabric, interwoven with a bemused real-time interiority. The 35 poems of this collection are pitted with reminiscences made approachable to the reader by their lack of self-absorption; it is the momentum of the will to persist by means of language--"moving, word by word"--against the incipient flickerings of mortality, that is their real logic. This act of self-propulsion may be subject to doubt ("Can we spend our lives feeding/off simple endurance?"), but it is humbly pursued: Warsh resists the inflated rhetoric such preoccupations usually attract and sticks instead with (in the words of his colleague Clark Coolidge) "confusion, in strict order."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-887123-78-5 (9781887123785)
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