Alix Anne Shaw

Rough Ground

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Produktbeschreibung

A unique poetic remaking of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Etruscan Press
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780997745559
• ISBN-10: 099774555X
• Artikelnr.: 48250510

Autorenporträt

Alix Anne Shaw is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Rough Ground (Etruscan 2018), Dido in Winter (Persea 2014), and Undertow (Persea 2007), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, and New American Writing. She is also a visual artist. Her sculpture, writing, and performance-based work can be viewed online at www.anneshaw.org and anneshaw.carbonmade.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
A Possible Willow
A Bloody Wilderness
A new bruise cannot be discovered later.
No body can be separate from its bruise.
Forensic scene 1
Bodies are simple.
Rainy or green
Forensic scene 2
A blinding
The fullness of a damp day is the willow.
We picture facts to ourselves.
Peacock theory
If a sky is to be a peacock
As a peacock recites its consolation into a clamoring space
Forest
A logical picture of sky is a bird.
A nest concealed in an ordinary tree
No difference can be discerned between a nest and a branch.
N E S T (n.)
Aftermath
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Forensic evidence
Contingent
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What can be distinguished in a wilderness of sound
[ ]
City
A labyrinth of houses
In the logic of depiction
What is the case if it rains
Divisions that one cannot get away from
A blinding
Reality is compared with a proposition.
A forest does not result in forest-houses.
Cannot be said, it
A rough equivalence
[ ]
Notes for a dream 1
Running or falling
Accounting
A priori
Notes for a dream 2
A wilderness of translation
A name is not replaceable with any other name.
Anamnesis
A set of wild rains
What it is
The possible combinations of n binary states is equal to the history of a
house.
What she holds to be true of a house
Tautologies and Contradictions
[ ]
(A stuttering of branches)
As two arrows might go out in opposite directions and might meet.
The willow's dreams determine the range of leaves it opens to the sky
/Notes for a dream 3
W I L L O W (n.)
The truth of a possible nest
To occupy a willow
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The disintegration of signs
The disintegration of signs
The d s ntegrat on of s gns
The d tegrat o of g
What crouches in the city cannot be pressed from it.
Questions of a House
An argument
Rain, rain, rain, rain.
A set of propositions
An empty superstition
A certainty
No one thing
A series of successive applications
A bracketed expression
The willow alters all that is the case.
Notes for a dream 4
Truth operations / The most real day
A primitive sign
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Three kinds of description
Half life
Negation of a damp day
[ ]
A person is equivalent to fire.
Axiom mundi
Insomnia / New Logic
A night scene
Falling from
An amended explanation as one climbs upon the house
An amended notation
To see what is pressed from darkness. In case of no expanse.
A logical progression / Rules that deal with signs
A method of being awake
Substitution (An archway rife with birds, a fence, a moving train)
(A)symmetry / Internal ground
The simplest procedure