| Particle and Wave Contributor(s): Landry, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 022609619X ISBN-13: 9780226096193 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2013021972 |
| Series: Phoenix Poets (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 72 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Are we alone? If so, Particle and Wave insists that we need not be lonely. Here the periodic table of elements--a system familiar to many of us from high school chemistry--unfolds in a series of unexpected meanings with connotations public, personal, and existential. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, Particle and Wave is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. From the most recent housing bust, to the artistic visions of Christo and Jeanne Claude, to the labors of the Curies, to Pliny the Younger's account of the eruption of Vesuvius, culture and world histories are recontextualized through the lens of personal experience. Muscular, precise, structurally varied, and imagistic, these poems engage in lyricism yet resist mere confession. In doing so they project the self as a composite, speaking in a variety of registers, from the nursery rhyme songster, to the ascetic devotee, to the unapologetic sensualist. They welcome all comers and elbow the bounded physical world to make way for a dynamic, new subjectivity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Landry, Benjamin: - Benjamin Landry is a Meijer Post-MFA Fellow at the University of Michigan and the author of An Ocean Away. |