| Book of Knots Contributor(s): Gamble, Jay (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771661992 ISBN-13: 9781771661997 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2015463274 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As Auden famously said, poetry does nothing. It is a genre of failure, and as such poetry is rich with failure. Book of Knots, a new book-length long poem by Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble, seeks to engage with life's failure, by building 'a nothing' out of something, where formal innovation, including exhaustive single sentence pieces, noun-less poems, interruption, computerized homolinguistic translation, and procedural poems, all contribute to a Mobius ouroboros self-consuming trajectory of impossibility. Think of Book of Knots as a kind of Seinfeld of poetry: at its centre is nothing, and its playful approach to critical negation results in puzzles and riddles that may yield no answers, but are richer from the asking. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gamble, Jay: - Jay Gamble was born and raised in London, Ontario. He completed his BA and MA at the University of Waterloo, where he wrote his thesis on the work of Robert Kroetsch. He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary, which focused on the ethics of nothingness in Canadian prairie literature. Some poems from Book of Knots have appeared, in different versions, in Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry. Jay currently teaches English at the University of Lethbridge and is the proud father of two sons. |
