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Janet Holmes - F2F - 9780268030766 - V9780268030766
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F2F

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Description for F2F Paperback. Introduces Emily Dickinson as the iconic female writer who, unread in her time, is frequently misinterpreted and unheard. This work relates Dickinson's self-isolation to the writer's isolation from the reader and the intimacy of the act of reading. It exhibits myriad human reactions to how seeing each other influences how we behave. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.

f2f: Shorthand for "face-to-face," as in meeting someone in real life, flesh-to-flesh, as opposed to in the electronic world of cyberspace. Used in chat rooms and while instant messaging on the Internet.

At the core of this challenging new collection from Janet Holmes is the conceit of the sense of sight and the complex role it plays in women's self-identities and relationships.

Emily Dickinson is introduced as the iconic female writer who, unread in her time, is frequently misinterpreted and unheard. Holmes relates Dickinson's self-isolation to the writer's isolation from the reader and the intimacy of the act ... Read more

Holmes intersperses her meditation with the language of online text-messaging, employing it as a vehicle for probing the dual limitations and liberties afforded on-line correspondents. Through her correspondents' postings, we chart their relationship evolving without benefit of ever meeting or exchanging photographs, the participants deeply affected by the absence of the sense of sight. By turns provocative and timid, lyrical and terse, the voices in f2f exhibit myriad human reactions to how seeing each other influences how we behave.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268030766
SKU
V9780268030766
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Janet Holmes
Janet Holmes is an award-winning poet who has published widely in journals and anthologies. Her poetry books include Green Tuxedo and Humanophone, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Reviews for F2F
"Holmes's attention to sound ("write with light / durable words indelible") is familiar poetic territory, but here it takes on new meaning because it so exceeds, or opposes, the text-messaging medium from which the language is drawn. This is like William Carlos Williams's experiments—or Bob Creeley's—in the excerpting and reframing of casual speech; the perception that a general method could ... Read more

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