Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck Poetry Series) [Paperback]

Susan Gevirtz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001 | Series: Burning Deck Poetry Series

Poetry. HOURGLASS TRANSCRIPTS asks What is legible? How can the unaccountable, uncountable find the page outside of measurable time? To approach the preverbal, the unspeakable, it may be necessary to make an incision through the center of a line, to hyphenate, replace thought. Or, in "Hollowed out Book," the names of shipping lines float across the water like gigantic book titles, telling much about the distant and the up close. And so about the act of seeing. Form is motion through place--toward the not yet imagined: its fabulous possibility and the full extent of its previous demolition.

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About the Author

Susan Gevirtz's books include AERODROME ORION & STARRY MESSENGER (Kelsey Street Press, 2010), Broadcast (Trafficker Press, 2009), THRALL (Post Apollo, 2007), Omatic & After St. John (dpress, 2006), HOURGLASS TRANSCRIPTS (Burning Deck, 2001), SPELT, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim (a+bend press, 1999), BLACK BOX CUTAWAY (Kelsey Street Press, 1999), Prosthesis : : Caesarea (Potes and Poets, 1994; reissue Little Red Leaves, 2009), Taken Place (Reality Street, 1993), LINEN MINUS (Avenue B, 1992), Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992), Korean and Milkhouse (ABACUS, Potes and Poets, 1991), and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996). Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. She was an Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University and now teaches in the MFA in Poetry Program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, on Paros island, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the United States.

Product Details

• Paperback: 70 pages
• Publisher: Burning Deck; 1st edition (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886224404
• ISBN-13: 978-1886224407
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,470,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)