Edges & Fray: on language, presence, and (invisible) animal architectures (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Vogel, Danielle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819579211 ISBN 13: 9780819579218

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2020

Synopsis

EDGES & FRAY is an embodied meditation on the ways we build and inhabit language. Interweaving close observation of the material composition of birds' nests with a delicate examination of what it means to be a writer and a reader, Danielle Vogel attunes us to the hardly noticed but fundamental threads by which we entangle ourselves into the world. The frayed edges of consciousness are carefully arranged to open and respond to the presence of others, to shift and rearrange with every reading. Experimental and deeply grounded, this work is lyrical and patient. The text creates overlapping ecological fields, wherein each field is a system always in a state of becoming. Finding its strength in fragility, Edges & Fray is personal without feeling private, experimental without feeling programmatic. Its construction is intuitive and masterful, its many threads interwoven and intrinsically linked. This is a beautiful and inspiring book at the intersection of poetry, somatics, ecology, and divination.

Excerpt [not the format on the page]:

writing is the retrieval
of material ―― to produce a desired , shape
as open : archiving
the word architecture
build within the space of this
thought .  sound ,  shaped
into series becomes
sentence and series

About this title

About the Author

DANIELLE VOGEL is a poet, lyric essayist, and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of Edges & Fray, The Way a Line Hallucinates its Own Linearity, and Between Grammars. An assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University, she lives in New England with writer and artist Renee Gladman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819579211
• ISBN 13: 9780819579218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112