INCH AEONS is a meditation on the form of meaning, the nature of nature, and the locality of tradition in an over-wired-world. Here, award-winning poet Nuala Archer adopts, breaks and recreates the limits of haiku, evoking moments of collision and convergence, from "Beyond Conception / Without Regeneration / Big Bang's Leave let Be" to "Am-Is-Are Was-Were / Has-Have-Had Do-Does-Did Shall- / Should Can-Could Will-Would." These are poems, as poet Pam Ore says in the Introduction, like starlight, resonat[ing] with the brightness of an original violence, cooling-healing and coalescing into the word. Illustrated by Japanese artist Tamzo, and framed with an image from Molly Corey's Family of Man Project, the poems in INCH AEONS are cracked and beautiful, fragmented and fully-formed as the world they come from.
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The capricious capitalization and the pell-mell and dizzy flight of these expressions create new and improbable beings of considerable splendor. --The Compulsive Reader
These telegraphic poems exercise a form and grammar that is intelligent and hypnotic. They send urgent messages, invent usages, and turn time on its head. A complex and wondrous book. --Juliet Patterson
These telegraphic poems exercise a form and grammar that is intelligent and hypnotic. They send urgent messages, invent usages, and turn time on its head. A complex and wondrous book. --Juliet Patterson
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Nuala M. Archer is the author of Whale on the Line, which won the National Irish Patrick Kavanagh Award. She has also published Two Women, Two Shores (with Medbh McGuckian), The Hour of Pan/ama , and From A Mobile Home. She served as the primary English-language editor for University Over the Abyss: The Story Behind 520 Lecturers & 2,430 Lectures in KZ Theresienstadt 1942-1944. In 1995, Archer survived a catastrophic car accident; recovering in Jerusalem, she enrolled in a theatre degree program at the School of Visual Theatre and continues to perform with the Jerusalem Theatre Company at festivals around the world. She is an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University.
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