twofold (The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) (Volume 82) - Softcover

Carson, Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0228020093 ISBN 13: 9780228020097

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The poet Charles Simic wrote, “Short poems: be brief and tell us everything.”

Edward Carson’s extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych – or twofold – poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Within the two sections of twofold, “dialogues” and “binaries,” the form of the diptych shapes language and meaning as paired poems engage each other across the margins of facing pages. Caroline Bem, author of A Moveable Form, writes: “The diptych, you see, is beautiful. It is symmetry and difference, doubling and mirroring, binarism and seriality. It is the form of paradox, both open and closed, free and contained.”

Negotiating surprising twinning combinations, comparisons, and outcomes, the poems in twofold are lively, thought-provoking, and playful interchanges that are also mischievously literate, questioning, and intuitive.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Carson is the author of several poetry collections including twofold, movingparts, whereabouts, Look Here Look Away Look Again, and Knots. He lives in Toronto.

From the Back Cover

Editors: Allan Hepburn and Carolyn Smart

McGill-Queen's University Press is pleased to be the publisher of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. Launched in 1998, the series is named in honour of the late Hugh MacLennan, acclaimed Canadian novelist and a poet in his own right. It is funded by proceeds from the intellectual property of Hugh MacLennan's estate, which he donated to McGill University.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0228020093
• ISBN 13: 9780228020097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96