Unidentified Poetic Object
Published on 1. May 2019
112 pages
978-1-77131-501-2 (ISBN)
Description
Astonishingly deft poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning," an animacy and urgency in which every object is potent with actions, past and present; every action is alive with the potential of what it might move in the world. And since every object is more than we know in our eagerness to turn it to human use, Henderson wants us to dive into that unknown space.
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BRIAN HENDERSON has been a Governor General's Award finalist and a finalist for the CAA Chalmers Award for Poetry. He is the author of eleven previous volumes of poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Reading by Luciferin /
- The Zombie Codex /
- Lightheadedness /
- Fizzed /
- Cloud Lessons /
- The Rain Book /
- Is /
- Shadow Water Radio /
- What Garden /
- Welcome /
- Soul Bodies /
- Marks /
- The Truth I Swear /
- House Made of Doors /
- Dictionary of Overlapping Things /
- Intensification Effect Produced by Deformations /
- Trees for Instance /
- Ravens Carry on their Research into Human Thinking /
- The One about the Nongivenness of Things / How to Master the Rotary Phone
- Bodies Falling past Time /
- Machine for Inquiring into the Nature of Singularities /
- Vacuum Glass History /
- Excommunicados /
- Light /
- Zeno's Attractor /
- User's Manual /
- Mereology /
- Unfolding /
- Words /
- Collection / How to Bend Time with a Flashlight in Your Own Home
- Unidentified Poetic Object /
- Pallasite /
- The Book of the River of Silver /
- In the Field /
- After a Long Walk with Ravens /
- Interregnum of Extractions /
- Small Device for Removing Phenomena from the Future /
- Apantomancy /
- Varves / How to Repair an Atomic Clock with Graptolites
- The Visitors /
- The Incommensurate /
- How to Survive a Decomposition Event /
- House /
- Cloud Encounter Box with Flow-Through Lungs /
- Contraband /
- Tangut Cloud Crumhorn /
- City /
- Imaginary Berlin /
- Mosquito Hologram /
- Pi /
- Ambush Loop with Hidden Processes /
- Equilibrium Vector /
- Sinthomes of Distributed Clairvoyance /
- Life Line /
- The Temperature of Noise /
- Escape Oracle /
- It Matters /
- Capillaries of Sleep /
- Fossils of Experience Found in Human Anatomy /
- Losing Sleep /
- This Is a Photograph of You /
- Debt Algorithm of Nitric Acid Cloud Particles /
- Shedding
- Last Things /
- How to Reimagine Some (but by No Means All) of the Impossible Foregoing Things /
- Acknowledgements /
