Daze - Brossura

Cooperman, Matthew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844712575 ISBN 13: 9781844712571

Casa editrice: Salt Pub, 2006

Riassunto

Contains poems which form a prospect on time - the passing of literal days, the ephemerality of the body, frangible memory, and the crisis of late modernity. This book is divided into three sections - "view", "ink", "bed" - in which the poems deploy a series of odes, calendrics, personations, textual deformations and possessive identities.

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In the world of Daze, “Far from home cries/here I am,” and the body you thought was yours may turn out not to be. In this world it is not easy to believe in the word. It takes probing impulse against pulse, prowl against prow. It takes careful observation and a fine intelligence. Then finally there can be a text where “the light, like a lacquered comparison to China, makes a box.” (Rosmarie Waldrop)|The ache of Berryman and the balls of Berrigan―a combination so striking in its language: sonorous, yes, but also snarky; lyrical and yet perky―dare I say perky? I do. As does Cooperman. Moments in Daze are so delicate, and then round the corner comes the stab, the surprise, the knowing frippery and the twinkle-eyed nudge. The poems do daze, they dazz, they does. No other poet has such panache and such beauty: ‘something pure in a heart can hide.’ (D A Powell)|Daze is days (the daily everywhere one reads every Daily) and confusion (the Daily Bugle–or is it Bungle?–of constant shock). “And so the parable grows an extra set of limbs to keep track of the/ ‘foliating of experience.’” Cooperman observes that “Today nothing’s ever Euclidean.” Which is to say there is no point to pass through except
the obvious: “I mean to say we die. He dies.” The poet addresses the Daze of the daily and how we are “confused with the multiplicity of our lives, or/how we are always.” His poems contain the philosophical and the plain-spoken, the scientific and the ripeness of 19th century diction, while at all times maintaining a healthy skepticism about language’s capacity to bring us here (or hear), where we have been wandering around lost for many years. Cooperman’s poems tell us that all may not be lost, there may in fact be a home, even if we never get to open its door.
(John Yau)

L'autore:

Matthew Cooperman was born in New Haven, CT in 1964. He is author of two chapbooks, Words About James (Phylum Press, 2006) and Surge (Kent State University, 1999) as well as the full-length collection A Sacrificial Zinc, which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Pleiades/LSU, 2001). He currently lives in Fort Collins, CO, where he teaches at Colorado State University.

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• Editore: Salt Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1844712575
• ISBN 13: 9781844712571
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 108