Title Statements
- Full title :Harm.
Summary
This debut volume establishes Steve Willard as a true original, an artist whose kinetic sense of wordplay is deft, smart, and unfailingly provocative. Intended to be read in repeated passes, these poems are Cubist in feel, multifaceted in syntax, and brilliant in coloration. By turns disjunctive, narrative, plaintive, and disruptive, Harm. makes use of a wide formal range in reaching toward its ambition, which is nothing short of reclaiming lost human potentiality from current norms. Syntax flexes and the world is refigured, observed as if through a different camera's open aperture, drawing th.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (77 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520940239, 0520940237, 1282358707, 9781282358706, 9786612358708, 661235870X
- DOI:10.1525/9780520940239
- oclc:ocn794663682
- LC Classification:PS3558
- Dewey Decimal:811.6
Table of Contents
Part I; what little fountains we are; (Only Life . . .); Craftiquel Row (Side-Song); Permission To Die; With Slight Matter (Currents); Part II; How To Read " Harm" (This Book); Continental Blue; And Being Imaginable; Deliciae, Solaciolum; -- less; Shingle Mirror, Average Bark; Shadows (Numbers) Tell It (To The Executioner); Board Of Rites; Dial " O"; Curved Glide Of Glazed Ambiguity; Heart Like A Drum; Immediately Thinking; Part III; Old Hours; Bear And Policeman II: " Fairest, Lord Jesus"; The Iliad And The Odyssey; Dark Drop Hook; Process Arquero; Candied Mai'nhood; Part IV.
EnduresCarmellathons; But They Know; Why To Talk, What To Say; Stranded Voice/Deliciae; Parking Timbre; Cutting White Boxes; Butterfly Steak; Part V; (Crinkled); Not Ever = Not Now; Ideas (Denuded); The Calm Repairs; (Invendavel); To Skystars, To Churchmouse; Is There Anything Nugget Can Do?; Ed Palestrina; Where They'll Bury Me; Seven Pebbles; -- less; Acknowledgments.
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