Comma /
Between 2008 and 2014, while her brother was in a lengthy coma, award-winning poet Jennifer Still engaged in a private collaboration with the art and wonder that was his handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. The result was the stunning works of poetry and imagery encapsulated in Comma. Still w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
BookThug,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Between 2008 and 2014, while her brother was in a lengthy coma, award-winning poet Jennifer Still engaged in a private collaboration with the art and wonder that was his handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. The result was the stunning works of poetry and imagery encapsulated in Comma. Still was moved by an overarching impulse of grief to create these poems. In the brittle lexicon of botany, and in the hum of the machines keeping her brother alive, she developed a hands-on method of composition that plays with the possibilities of what can be 'read' on a page. Comma enacts a state of transformation and flux, all in an effort to portray the embodiment of grief and regeneration that can be achieved in the physical breakdown and reassembly of lyric poetic forms. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781771663106 1771663103 |