Description
Preverbs are not so much assertions as events. Read on the page or, better yet, spoken, each of Quasha's lines is an occasion for becoming aware of meaning in the making. Releasing words from semantic routine, reinventing syntax on the fly, the preverbs provide us with endless opportunities to entangle ourselves in ambiguity and seeming contradiction. As they bring us to the verge of unintelligibility, entanglement becomes an embrace and we generate new powerful meanings- not once for all but in a succession of instants that carry us from line to line, page to page, precipitating us into an expansive, endlessly renewable present.
Author: George Quasha
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: 05/01/2020
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781949966947
ISBN10: 1949966941
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
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