I entered without words : poems /
An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape converge. In this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Text in English, with some poems translated into French on facing pages. |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Princeton series of contemporary poets.
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| Summary: | An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape converge. In this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody Gladding explores landscape as a source of language in lyrics that operate as physical acts in three-dimensional space. Composed and printed in a landscape format, these minimal, quiet, playful, meditative and open-ended poems are experimental in form and inviting in subject. Drawing inspiration from poets like A.R. Ammons, Lorine Niedecker, Gustaf Sobin and Jean Valentine, and visual artists like Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn and Cecilia Vicuña, Gladding discovers exciting spatial possibilities within the page itself by exploiting white space and varying typeface. As the page opens into the compositional field that Mallarmé, Ponge and others conceived it to be, words constellate around bolded through-lines to offer multiple, interwoven meanings, interacting with each other and the reader, who moves freely among them, to make poems that are spatial, nonlinear and different with each reading. And, adding yet another dimension to the collection, many of the poems have facing-page French versions. 'Landscape-oriented' in every sense, I entered without words is an ambitious, innovative and striking collection by a major poet. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 64 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780691238968 0691238960 9780691238951 0691238952 |