Rhrurbarb - Softcover

Kocik, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0978926218 ISBN 13: 9780978926212

Publisher: Periplum Editions/Field Books, 2007

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Poetry. Can remission be written? Can words be so potent and so immediately so? This new title by Robert Kocik offers the Sore, Oversensitive Sciences a sustained and demonstrative exploration of possible intersections between prosody and pathology. Two forty-six poem series, Remissions and Cinnabar Verses, along with a Preface and a generous Glossary, offer a good cross-section of Kocik's range, from prosody to medicine, neuroscience and biogenetics, to Chinese alchemy and back. The book is by turns metaphysically serious, tender, incisive, comically hilarious, and always demanding of its audience, who will barely recognize their own habits of thought, turned inside out. A rare and masterful return to verse, from the Bureau of Material Behaviors.

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About the Author

Robert Kocik is a poet and architect living in Brooklyn, NY. He has developed an experiential science called The Prosodic Body. "For the Prosodic Body, medicine is as intrinsic to poetry as music; speech signals hormonal secretion; inequity is treatable by tone; and our susceptibility to words is infinite." His publications include Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), Rhrurbarb (Field Books/Periplum Editions, 2007) and the 2009 All Peoples Calendar.

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