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Landscapes from a Train
Cole Swensen
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Description for Landscapes from a Train
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen's new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations of minutiae transform a whole. These poems meditate on what it is simply to look at the world, without judgment, without intervention, without appropriation. Swensen's lyric observations, lilting and delicate, distill the act of seeing. Swensen's poetry documents a penetrating 'intellectus' - light of the mind - by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent. - Anne Waldman
Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen's new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations of minutiae transform a whole. These poems meditate on what it is simply to look at the world, without judgment, without intervention, without appropriation. Swensen's lyric observations, lilting and delicate, distill the act of seeing. Swensen's poetry documents a penetrating 'intellectus' - light of the mind - by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent. - Anne Waldman
Product Details
Publisher
Nightboat Books United States
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
136g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781937658410
SKU
V9781937658410
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99-15
About Cole Swensen
COLE SWENSEN is the author of 13 books of poetry, including Gravesend, and a book of essays, Noise That Stays Noise. She's also the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and the founder and editor of La Presse, a nano-press dedicated to contemporary French work in translation. She is professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Reviews for Landscapes from a Train
Swensen's powers of description transform what could easily be an academic exercise into an aesthetic journey that for many readers will be worth taking for the sights and sounds alone.
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly