English Fragments A Brief History of the Soul [Paperback]

Martin Corless-Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2010

Moving freely through poetry's pictorial fragmentariness and literal fragments of prose, with a streaming, equanimous, nondiscriminatory referentiality, Martin Corless-Smith proposes and confers with entities in "the janus-faced doorway" of antiquity and contemporaneity--the "experience and the coming-into-history of that experience."

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"Thought exists and has this book's solidity... [In Martin Corless-Smith's beautifully etched dictions, there is an older English we only now recognize, caught midway between England and America but rooted in both, and in bodies and consciousness, in the struggles of this century, where 'substance and accident' deliver us to presence, in 'modest love'." (Erin Moure )

About the Author

Martin Corless-Smith is the author of ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL, SWALLOWS, NOTA, COMPLETE TRAVELS, and Of Piscator, as well as several chapbooks. He was Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, and holds an MFA in Fine Arts and Printmaking from SMU and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University at Utah. He is currently the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Boise State University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Fence Books (October 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934200387
• ISBN-13: 978-1934200384
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,293,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fine read and solidly recommended, January 14, 2011

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This review is from: English Fragments A Brief History of the Soul (Paperback)

Throughout time, pieces of history and life are scattered for us to put back together. "English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul" is a collection of poetry from Martin Corless-Smith as he reflects on the meetings of opposites in our world and facing history in the bigger picture. Thoughtful and thought provoking verse, "English Fragments" is a fine read and solidly recommended. "My Picture Left": I now think language deaf/Its sentence blind unconscious read/So much want these hundred hairs/My face his eyes her ears unsaid.