Console /
Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Sene...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation and the universal ritual of 'the walk,' Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies and turns words inside out. |
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| Physical Description: | 125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374607227 0374607222 |