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Drawing of a Swan Before Memory

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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How do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of “you” and “I” have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of poetry, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory.In a series of elegant prose poems, Browne guides the reader through the intricate development of human perception, where the haunting vastness of childhood slowly gives way to the defining features of adult cognition. Subtly nuanced verse constructs a world of color before sight and utterance before language—all the while aware that, ironically, language itself makes this ethereal world possible.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-11
Mått140 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt118 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Poetry
Antal sidor80
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9780820327297

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Browne's work places her amongst the loveliest natural historians of perception: Goethe, Bergson, Lucretius. Like them she knows that ‘description becomes a portrait of not an object but a transference.’ The indetermination and synaesthesia in perceiving here find their register, locating the poem in what remains unbound, to the side of the image. This same oblique site spontaneously invents the ethical, showing that to describe is to honour an unknowable receiver. These poems gently host our plenitude.