incidental music [Paperback]

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 2010

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's incidental music presents an atonal surround sound of turbulent registers. In this work there is dissonance and friction at the level of figuration-a "welding of phenomenological scalpels". These poems are filled with humans facing human conundrums. Joritz-Nakagawa's lyrics emphatically convey that a wound is not a tomb-the tone is often solemn but also wry. "These are not full truths" - chaos threatens time and despair close to oblivion is unraveled in paradoxical lines, yet there is a bold confidence emitted, a pact is made to keep going. Amidst the rumble is an evanescence that can't be collapsed into a flat plane. -BRENDA IIJIMA incidental music is attentive to the deep formal traditions of poetry in the western tradition: the sonnet, the pantoum, the cinquain, the rondeau, the triolet, the ghazal. And yet, as Jane Joritz-Nakagawa well knows, these traditions get their strength in how they intertwine with the contemporary. Incidental music is both innovative and inclusive of all that poetry can do. -JULIANA SPAHR

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About the Author

Originally from the U.S.A., Jane Joritz-Nakagawa lives in central Japan. Her poems, essays, and interviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and Japan. incidental music is her fifth book of poem

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (March 11, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935402943
• ISBN-13: 978-1935402947
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,265,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)