Compulsive Words

Michael Ruby

ISBN 10: 193540282X / ISBN 13: 9781935402824

Editore: BlazeVOX [books], 2010

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Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy, text also very good. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Compulsive Words
• Editore: BlazeVOX [books]
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 193540282X
• ISBN 13: 9781935402824
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Poetry

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Riassunto

Poetry. "Reading the poems in COMPULSIVE WORDS is like taking a hard drug."—Aaron Kiely

"Michael Ruby's new book is experienced as a kind of sotto voce diction, an unrelenting mumbling in the back of the mind, which takes two very different forms: as a graphic representation of voices (words presented in diagrammatic patterns), and as what might be 'transcriptions' of those diagrams and patterns: 'O paper placement machines/Blue ladder to family problems' or 'Somnabulist prows to leaven/Healthy escarole.' Or perhaps the diagrams are transcriptions of the other texts: the tense dialectic between these two poles is one of the things that makes this book well worth contemplating."—John M. Bennett

On January 29, 1999, my older brother was near death in a Boston hospital after emergency surgery for a blood clot in the abdomen. As I sat near the phone in Brooklyn that morning, trying to type up an old manuscript, it suddenly occurred to me that I was experiencing an extreme emotion, dread, and that I should see which words this extreme emotion displaced in my mind. While writing the poem "Dread," I perceived certain words repeatedly appearing, forcing themselves on me, taking over the poem. From then on, during composition, I noticed the appearance of these "compulsive words," which I first collected in the poem COMPULSIVE WORDS in 2000, and whose number has continued to grow ever since.—Michael Ruby

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Book by Ruby Michael