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A Several World

Brian Blanchfield

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9781937658175
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9781937658175
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Published by:
Nightboat Books
Pub date:
04/01/2014
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
111
ISBN:
9781937658175
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Poetry. As in the title phrase--borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick--in which "several" is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A SEVERAL WORLD there are glimpses of an "us down here"--in the understory, in the open clearing--and, by various projections, there is frequent attainment of an aerial vantage, a post otherwise abdicated. Landscape here is spatial theater, and a choreography recruits all standalone selves: solidarity beginning in an erotics of attunement, catching likenesses.

"This clever, busy, anxious, flirtatious poet, with his 'predilections for predicaments, ' can connect anything to anything else."--Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review