Visual Inspection

Rader, Matt

ISBN 10: 0889713561 / ISBN 13: 9780889713567

Published by Nightwood Editions, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Inspection
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889713561
• ISBN 13: 9780889713567
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

Composed over a period of profound illness, Visual Inspection is a searching reflection on poetry, power and our embodied lives. Shaped by matching elements of literary history, poetic practice, contemporary art, politics and ecology with Rader’s own experience of chronic illness and pain, Visual Inspection writes into and through what is accessible to our minds and bodies. Part memoir, part essay, part poetic investigation, the text guides us through kaleidoscopic meditations on disability, access, vision, redaction, pain, illness and death. Set primarily in the central Okanagan, Visual Inspection is a codex of references, artifacts and associations that, taken as whole, revisions access as process and art as experience.

About the Author

Matt Rader is an award-winning author of six volumes of poetry, a collection of stories and a book of nonfiction. His previous book of poems, Ghosthawk (2021), was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and lives in Kelowna, BC.