Retallack’s book draws readers into a meditative experience of time, space and language.
Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they intersect and leave their traces on the page. All of civilization to date, all of history is after all aftermath, afterthought, afterimage. The language graphics of AFTERRIMAGES lay claim to the fragility -- the gift, the terror, and the whimsy -- of the remnant that all images are. Their playful nature is born of the conviction that the present tense -- tense, tensile with immanent futurity -- must extend itself toward the unintelligible and unknown. This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place.
Endorsements:
"A meticulous but passionate book, clear in its intentions, powerful both visually and intellectually." —Lyn Hejinian
"For readers interested in the best contemporary writing, Joan Retallack's AFTERRIMAGES is a good place to begin, continue, or end...[a] work which is rewarding on every level." —Ann Lauterbach
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From the Book:
coal dark oboe
3rd ave
over anon
light
dark
skate
which no is yes
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JOAN RETALLACK teaches at the University of Maryland interdisciplinary University Honors Program and is an associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Her Errata 5uite was chosen by Robert Creeley for the 1994 Columbia Book Award. She is co-author, with John Cage, of MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES on Words*Art*Music.
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