Paul Vermeersch's new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body's experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the acclaimed author of Burn, The Fat Kid, and Between the Walls. Vermeersch has always gone in search of understanding. Now his…mehr
Paul Vermeersch's new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body's experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the acclaimed author of Burn, The Fat Kid, and Between the Walls. Vermeersch has always gone in search of understanding. Now his discoveries speak of a human world exhausted by its divorce from an animal past, terrified of retreating into early places it never truly left, astonished by the forgotten possibilities disclosed there.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Vermeersch is the author of three previous collections of poetry and the editor of The I.V. Lounge Reader and The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology. His writing has appeared frequently in the Globe and Mail and been featured on CBC Radio. His poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada, the United States and Europe. He lives in Toronto, teaches at Sheridan College, and is the poetry editor for Insomniac Press.
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I The Painted Beasts of Lascaux A Scorpion in Alcohol Ode to Amoeba proteus Bosch Landscape 2010 Hands The Formation of the Pack Altarpiece with False Teeth and Parkinson’s Disease The Sadness Will Last Forever Twenty-one Days with a Baboon Heart Another Effect of Global Warming Elegy for Paul Winchell Ape Boys Who Envy Werewolves
II I Am Happy to Live in an Age of Plenty Basic Instructions for Anaesthesia Old Punk Prayer to a Saint Smoke In the Glorious Absence of Gods Last of the Blondes The Threatened Swan Ringtones Prosthetic Leg in Storage A Photograph of the Human Retina
III Sorrow for Frogsong In Joseph Merrick’s London The Marriage of the Nuclei Dogstar Love as an Argument in Theoretical Physics A Glass Eye Finds Its Purpose The Reinvention of the Human Hand He Considers the Possibility that None of This Is Real This Is Where Your Life Begins Three Anthropomorphic Studies Beautiful and Swift The Demolition of Heaven Cloud Formation like a Map of the World Lost Things
I The Painted Beasts of Lascaux A Scorpion in Alcohol Ode to Amoeba proteus Bosch Landscape 2010 Hands The Formation of the Pack Altarpiece with False Teeth and Parkinson’s Disease The Sadness Will Last Forever Twenty-one Days with a Baboon Heart Another Effect of Global Warming Elegy for Paul Winchell Ape Boys Who Envy Werewolves
II I Am Happy to Live in an Age of Plenty Basic Instructions for Anaesthesia Old Punk Prayer to a Saint Smoke In the Glorious Absence of Gods Last of the Blondes The Threatened Swan Ringtones Prosthetic Leg in Storage A Photograph of the Human Retina
III Sorrow for Frogsong In Joseph Merrick’s London The Marriage of the Nuclei Dogstar Love as an Argument in Theoretical Physics A Glass Eye Finds Its Purpose The Reinvention of the Human Hand He Considers the Possibility that None of This Is Real This Is Where Your Life Begins Three Anthropomorphic Studies Beautiful and Swift The Demolition of Heaven Cloud Formation like a Map of the World Lost Things
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