A brilliant new collection by a poet who is also a critic of jazz form and free-verse prosody.
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A selection of technically deft and diverting, but finally mild lyric poems opens this polyphonic fifth collection. Far more intriguing is the work that showcases Hartman's activity as the author of Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry (1996) and the creator of DIASTEX4, a computer program written to automate Jackson Mac Low's chance text-selection procedures. In "Except to Be: First Quire," "The Masque of Measure," and "Seventy-Six Assertions and Sixty-Three Questions," Hartman explores the prose poem and the miniature essay. There, philosophical meditation (on voice, alphabet, anatomy, genealogy, etymology, photography, constraint writing, and materials such as brick, glass, and ice) is joined with disjunctive syntax to brilliant effect: "The court of color is atmosphere. Light in the spring marches, but place is the true science. While metabolism types us, the oak has worked through brick, and the breath knows ghosts." Hartman is an encylopedist in both the classical and the new, informational senses: his subjects stand at once for poetic metaphor and for the erosion of metaphor in an endlessly diverse networked society. This volume confirms not only that the form of the essay is revitalizing American poetry, but that at a time when computers can be programmed to compose formula verse all by themselves, creative programming itself becomes a form of writing.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"THE LONG VIEW is an enormously lively and accomplished book, one that lets itself out of the box to baffle and enlighten. We look forward to further quires, tapirs, oddments of history, and delicate elections." -- Boston Book Review
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
