
Anabranch
Andrew Zawacki(Author)
Wesleyan University Press
Published on 14. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-0-8195-6701-7 (ISBN)
Description
Anabranch, the sequel to Andrew Zawacki's critically acclaimed By Reason of Breakings, is a record of philosophical movement into the world, a meditation upon its shadowy routes, and a requiem for what is lost along the way. Composed of three sequences introduced by a "Credo" that professes, "I believe / in the violence of not knowing," this volume of poems explores alienation, disruption, and disjunction at the levels of language, perception, feeling, and the self. In a broken landscape defined by negation and an asymptotic relation to a divinity that might not exist, Zawacki pursues a poetics of intimacy, impelled by what the heart decides, and offers a visionary new way for being in the world. Poems in Anabranch have been awarded both the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of America.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8195-6701-7 (9780819567017)
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Andrew Zawacki is the author of By Reason of Breakings (2002) and Masquerade (2001), co-editor of the international journal Verse, and editor of the anthology Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (1999). He currently studies in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.