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Book cover of Gaze by Howell, Christopher - 9781571314369

Gaze

by Howell, Christopher

Format: Paperback, Original
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Date of publication: 2012-02-14
Shipped From: US (10-14 days)
RRP: NZ$19.70
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Description: The counterpointed and imagistic work collected in "Gaze" reveals a poet uniquely concerned with the idea of vision: how the objective world (the world of time and memory), the world of the inner life, and the other world (the world of imagination and alternate life) may be seen, and how the experience of this seeing may alter itself and create meaning. Each of the book's three sections examines one of these categories of seeing, moving between narrative and lyric modes, between the undisguised voice of the poet and the voices of a variety of characters, creatures, and ghosts. Swinging between moments of delicate connection (touching a girl's wrist) and striking brutality (a boy slamming a just-caught fish against a boat's stern to kill it "as he was taught"), Howell turns these modes of vision in on each other, and the result is a collection wholly unified and unlike anything come before.
In-Stock: 10
Weight: 170g
Subject Keywords: Poetry
ISBN: 9781571314369
Genre: Poetry (Contemporary & Criticism)

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