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Cutting Room
Sarah (City Hospital Pinder
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Description for Cutting Room
Paperback. Poems about the anxiety of the present -- the dread that comes with being human at his particular moment. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 157.
Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire while they scan scenes as an outsider or camera eye to unsettle and fray familiar settings. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. These are little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our ... Read more
Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire while they scan scenes as an outsider or camera eye to unsettle and fray familiar settings. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. These are little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452646
SKU
V9781552452646
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About Sarah (City Hospital Pinder
Sarah Pinder: Sarah Pinder was born in Sault Ste Marie. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and small magazines, as well as the anthology She's Shameless. Her work has also been performed and displayed in Canada and abroad. She lives in Toronto.
Reviews for Cutting Room
'I can't tell whether these poems are glass or shatterproof glass. They're delicate, clear, tough, opaque, breakable. Sarah Pinder makes everything new.' - Roo Borson, author of Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida 'Her poems are odd, quirky, and utterly charming, and include shades of Richard Brautigan surrealism, Nelson Ball's brevity and Stuart Ross' absurdity, albeit with her unapologetic eye.' - ... Read more