Joan Retallack (151 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Poetry. At the beginning of her astounding new book, Joan Retallack posts a warning from Immanuel Kant 'against arguing directly from the logical possibility of concepts to the real possibility of things.' It seems to me that Retallack has succeeded brilliantly by flouting Kant's injunction. 'The real possibility of things' shimmers and sings on every page of PROCEDURAL ELEGIES, creating a living entity through means that remain as mysterious as they are vital--John Ashbery.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Poetry. At the beginning of her astounding new book, Joan Retallack posts a warning from Immanuel Kant 'against arguing directly from the logical possibility of concepts to the real possibility of things.' It seems to me that Retallack has succeeded brilliantly by flouting Kant's injunction. 'The real possibility of things' shimmers and sings on every page of PROCEDURAL ELEGIES, creating a living entity through means that remain as mysterious as they are vital--John Ashbery.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In Bosch's] enchanted garden no color line is drawn.--Commentary 106, Art Treasures of the Prado, 1954Poetry. Art. Joan Retallack's BOSCH'D--fables, moral tales & other awkward constructions is passionate, transgressive and, albeit obliquely, optimistic that we can (but only with creative buoyancy) exhume a sense of viable futures for all species on this planet. The first of many BOSCH'D aphorisms states the opening condition this way: Humor without gravitas passes through the mind with little effect; gravitas without humor is death. With that, Retallack takes on the paradoxical, hence generative, dystopian logics she calls our projectile legacies--misogyny, racism, undaunted colonialism, and more. It's where her playful and grave poetics of the poethical wager revs up. As the sun at noon illustrates all shadows, Hieronymus Bosch illuminated a beautiful and grotesque biosphere (see Fig. x) that, along with tender sensuality and ubiquitous love, was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene. Bosch'd (verb. trans.) does not yet appear in our lexicons. For some of its implications, we present this erudite, searching, and great-humored book.I've encountered few imaginations as consistently delightful and nourishing as Joan Retallack's, even fewer that can match her range of exploration from book to book. In BOSCH'D, instructional notations lead to paradox, and mathematical sketches add up to koans, and yet throughout the book, the political and philosophical implications are absolutely exigent. In Retallack's gnomic propositions, poetry becomes almost all that we could ask of it.--Forrest GanderThis proliferation of angels, and angles, and spectra, and scenes, and singing is all but too beautifully blur to blurb. It defies its own collection. You have to ride, or hide, in an untied thought balloon to read it. It's so beautiful, with so much thought inside, and so loco, so such a little crazy in all its other languages, so off and errant but also so on the spot and dug in and garden'd, so unalone and shared and redshifted, so non-solo'd and so alter'd, that it becomes an altar, its music of alterity holding a delightful cultivation of flown that we can ground in, though it's also so nonlocal, so shar'd in the general speech, that even in the preparation of its table of contents, as if it were a piano on which bizarre things have been painted as the coming of froth, BOSCH'D blindsides despair. Who is Genre Tallique anyway? Bud Powell? An owl? Wow --Fred MotenMay language be always in motion, biomimetic, hers. Retallack's radical intelligence is balm-like, in no small part for the restlessness and fluidity of its humor. Reading BOSCH'D I think of Stevens' precept that 'the poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.' Must has gotten musty and, yet, out of the delirious entanglements of the poem and reason, Retallack's verse emerges, always victorious: 'We are not designed to perceive most of what surrounds us or to fully understand the rest.' Anthropocentric reason keeps leading us nowhere and very well may be the epitome of our foolhardiness. In their refusal to perpetuate 'past-perfected-present-participling legacies, ' Retallack's poems invariably know better.--M nica de la Torre.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they intersect and leave their traces on the page. All of civilization to date, all of history is after all aftermath, afterthought, afterimage. The language graphics of AFTERRIMAGES lay claim to the fragility-the gift, the terror, and the whimsy-of the remnant that all images are. Their playful nature is born of the conviction that the present tense-tense, tensile with immanent futurity-must extend itself toward the unintelligible and unknown. This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. 1996. 1st Printing. Fine hardback book. Near Fine dust jacket. An as new copy. Back panel of jacket lightly rubbed. 360pp. Sm 4to. (BB).

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Paperback. Condition: New. Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they intersect and leave their traces on the page. All of civilization to date, all of history is after all aftermath, afterthought, afterimage. The language graphics of AFTERRIMAGES lay claim to the fragility-the gift, the terror, and the whimsy-of the remnant that all images are. Their playful nature is born of the conviction that the present tense-tense, tensile with immanent futurity-must extend itself toward the unintelligible and unknown. This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place. …

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. This book is in good plus condition with tight binding and mostly clean text. There is some minor writing in the margins and a few of the pages have been dog eared. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Book appears very lightly read and near sharp. There are a few stray pencil underlines and notes in 3 places. 416 pages, includes photos and illustrations peppered throughout, and an index.