Twenty-One After Days [Paperback]

Lisa Lubasch (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1880713373 | ISBN-13: 978-1880713372 | Publication Date: April 30, 2006 | Edition: 1

Poetry. "Lisa Lubasch's rich extended poem, TWENTY-ONE AFTER DAYS, snarls and snags the comfortable fabric we perceive as knowledge. Her ingenious knittong of language--a "luminous scatter"--skillfully works a continuous syntactic suspension: tugged between entry and obstacle, "lingering--on the brink of conjecture--what is imminent is the chasing." The threadbare schemes by which we make meaning and narrative are exposed here; certainty is revealed as sorrowfully impossilbe. Yet we are persuaded with the poet that "patience may bloom backward into knowledge." The empathetic intelligence from which this poetry emerges offers consolation, a deft cupping of "the form's suggestion."--Elizabeth Robinson. Lisa Lubasch's previous collections are TO TELL THE LAMP, VICINITIES, and HOW MANY MORE OF THEM ARE YOU?, all currently available from SPD.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Lubasch's three previous books (including To Tell the Lamp) and translations from the French have carved her an elegant niche all her own: abstract, ethereal explorations of a mind pitched toward divagation. The result: spaces of unknowing opened up by open-ended thought, and very beautiful ones at that. Here, Lubasch reaches new heights of formal variety; in rigorous short stanzas, in free-floating painterly lines and in prose blocks—some made of sentences, others of breathless hyphenated phrases—Lubasch evokes anxiety and anticipation through phenomenology and ontology, and through the simple passing of time. Precursors from Emily Dickinson to Michael Palmer come to mind as Lubasch presses on, her "self— reformulated as scribble—/ its untoward aspect— diminishing." (Apr.)
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From the Back Cover

Lisa Lubasch's rich extended poem, Twenty-One After Days, snarls and snags the comfortable fabric we perceive as knowledge. Her ingenious knitting of language – a "luminous scatter" – skillfully works a continuous syntactic suspension: tugged between entry and obstacle, "lingering – on the brink of a conjecture – what is imminent is the chasing." The threadbare schemes by which we make meaning and narrative are exposed here; certainty is revealed as sorrowfully impossible. Yet we are persuaded with the poet that "patience may bloom backward into knowledge." The empathetic intelligence from which this poetry emerges offers consolation, a deft cupping of "the form's suggestion." --Elizabeth Robinson

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Product Details

• Paperback: 77 pages
• Publisher: Avec Books; 1 edition (April 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880713373
• ISBN-13: 978-1880713372
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,343,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)