Folding Ruler Star

Aaron Kunin

ISBN 10: 0974090980 / ISBN 13: 9780974090986

Published by Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books, US, 2005

About this Item

The poems in Folding Ruler Star are conceived as a value-neutral Paradise Lost. In other words, someone who is not God tells you to avoid a certain tree, and you disobey the instruction; the result is shame. Two characters agree that one of them is supposed to worship and obey the other without actually believing that the other possesses any special qualities that would enforce obedience; the first one disobeys the second one and has to be punished. A body has five parts; each part is alarmed. Descriptions of the parts set off the alarms. Affect lives in the face and is measured with a ruler. The measure is a five-syllable line arranged in three-line units. Each poem is mirrored by another poem with the same title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Folding Ruler Star
• Publisher: Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books, US
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974090980
• ISBN 13: 9780974090986
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"With alarmed intelligence, FOLDING RULER STAR exposes the violence of an expectant look, synthesizes the organic and robotic then unzips them just as machines unzip / concrete dividers / on the highway. May Aaron Kunin make all the rules, and may our capacity for facial communication finally collapse within his tremendous Dionysian orderliness."
--Jacqueline Waters

About the Author

Aaron Kunin is the author of FOLDING RULER STAR (Fence, 2005), a collection of small poems about shame; THE MANDARIN (Fence, 2008), a novel; and THE SORE THROAT & OTHER POEMS (Fence Books, 2010). He lives in Los Angeles and is an assistant professor of negative anthropology at Pomona College.