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With a lyricism that is both delicate and painful, Rough Ground explores the devastating consequences of trauma on our ability to speak about the world. Based upon Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Rough Ground distills philosophical speculation to poetic text, enacting an utterance almost beyond speech. While the philosopher concludes “that which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence,” the poems writ on “rough ground” enact a portentous silence, mapping a path between word and world.
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Rough Ground was written for readers of experimental poetry and translation, particularly those with an interest in lyricism, the nature of language, philosophy, translations, and women’s and gender studies. It will appeal to poets, students of Wittgenstein, scholars of Oulipo, philosophers, and feminist thinkers.
About the Author
Alix Anne Shaw is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Rough Ground (Etruscan 2018), Dido in Winter (Persea 2014), and Undertow (Persea 2007), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, and New American Writing. She is also a visual artist. Her sculpture, writing, and performance-based work can be viewed online at www.anneshaw.org and anneshaw.carbonmade.com.
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- PublisherEtruscan Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 099774555X
- ISBN 13 9780997745559
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages138
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Rough Ground is a translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus from philosophical treatise to poetic text. In this work, Wittgenstein argues that language sets the limits of what can be said and thought meaningfully. He famously concludes that "that which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence." Such topics (as Wittgenstein himself noted) include much of human activity that does not have a basis in objects, including philosophy and poetry. Clearly, as a poet, I do not share his view. The work incorporates many different methods of literal and semantic translation. Although the format of the Tractatus--long lines in short sections--lends itself well to poetic form, the language and syntax do not. Wittgenstein's text is notoriously abstract and austere. In writing my own text, I began by using simple substitutions of a concrete noun for an abstract one; as the work progressed, I was forced to reinvent my method in each section. The result of these manipulations is a text in which Wittgenstein's concepts are discernible, but in which there is more and more slippage between his language and my own. This slippage, of course, underscores the weaknesses in Wittgenstein's own analysis of language, highlighting the ways that poetry creates its own reality--literally makes its own sense. As I worked, the text took on a loose narrative, involving a main character who experiences the trauma of atomic warfare. The result is the loss of language through which her experience can be understood and expressed. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Wittgenstein's work, a phenomenon I connect to the linguistic challenges we face in our present historical moment. Arguably, the very nature of language has changed, and continues to change, in the wake of terrorism and the simultaneous reduction of reflected human experience to sound bytes. How can language continue to function in the wake of actions such as beheadings broadcast on the Internet? We must all ask how we can speak about such events. We must also learn to communicate complexly in the aftermath. Rough Ground explores these questions and dilemmas through the dual modes of philosophical thought and poetic logic, as well as through the gaps between the two. In doing so, it not only deals with the inevitable falling-short of language, but also suggests we may can invent forms of linguistic signification that accommodate our present need. For me, poetry is the space in which such invention--a wild proliferation of meaning--can take place. A unique poetic remaking of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780997745559
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