Del 82 i serien Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series

twofold

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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The poet Charles Simic wrote, “Short poems: be brief and tell us everything.”Edward Carson’s extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych – or twofold – poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Within the two sections of twofold, “dialogues” and “binaries,” the form of the diptych shapes language and meaning as paired poems engage each other across the margins of facing pages. Caroline Bem, author of A Moveable Form, writes: “The diptych, you see, is beautiful. It is symmetry and difference, doubling and mirroring, binarism and seriality. It is the form of paradox, both open and closed, free and contained.”Negotiating surprising twinning combinations, comparisons, and outcomes, the poems in twofold are lively, thought-provoking, and playful interchanges that are also mischievously literate, questioning, and intuitive.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-02
Mått127 x 191 x 7 mm
Vikt118 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Antal sidor96
FörlagMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN9780228020097

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“Edward Carson makes one want to write an essay about the genius of poetry. It would admire his poems’ pursuit of self-discovery, their own identities as fictions. It would remark how they try to grasp the present world (the world of online and AI and digital obfuscation) in all its impresence and pare it down to its metaphoric minimums. But then it would want to insist that, in the end, all of twofold is about metaphor, all metaphors being twofold by definition. It would celebrate the challenge of his work—in his method as much as in his subject matter—of holding two thoughts at once, which is both impossible and manifestly achieved in the poem’s own terms. It would note how threads of thought come near without joining, swirl around and away from one another. But the essay would exhaust itself trying to keep up, and in the end the poems would dance circles around it.” Jeffery Donaldson, author of Missing Link and Granted: Poems of Metaphor