Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) Contributor(s): Lazer, Hank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0998677728 ISBN-13: 9780998677729 Publisher: Negative Capability Press OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
LCCN: 2017916068 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.66 lbs) 104 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From Lazer's ambitious ten-year Notebook shape-writing project, Evidence of Being Here: Beginning in Havana (N27) challenges the way we read and write poetry and reframes the terms of spiritual autobiography. Though Lazer's handwritten shape-writing presents itself most obviously and initially as a visual experience - the shape of thinking itself embodied in the improvisation of each page - this book is also infused with the overlapping ways in which we both hear and are here. Beginning with Lazer's fourth trip to Havana (and two noteworthy jazz-poetry concerts with saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar), music itself and the music of the shape-written poetry is crucial to this book, just as is an ever-shifting investigation of how we are here: what it means to be in a specific place. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, Lazer creates immediately accessible and beautifully drawn intervals of consciousness that is a unique contribution to American poetry. |