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Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Passages Bookshop
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16mo, 83 pp. Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award for 2004. As new.
Seller Inventory # 3339
- Title
- Representing Absence
- Author
- Meadows, Deborah
- Publisher
- Green Integer, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1931243778
- ISBN 13
- 9781931243773
- Edition
- First printing.
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- Poetry
In Representing Absence, Deborah Meadows draws on a practice of poetry composition as palimpsest: writing on top, or through, other writing, evoking writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Herman Melville (in the excerpts from “The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick”), Dante, and video artist, Bill Viola (in “Not a Treatise on the Line Segment”).
To return to the 19th century of Melville becomes a study of social practice and discourse, both its encyclopedic project and attempts at democratic meeting under the long shadow of remembered monarchy—the sound of naturalized assumptions that haunt us today. “Will Narcissus result in carnage…” sets action against a place where “originals are required: cement / banisters merge public and private lives….” Floodlights are directed toward point of view, limited social voice, and violence of the factory, whaling fleet, and property lines.
Deborah Meadows teaches at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, and has been part of writers’ and scholars’ exchanges with Havana, Cuba.
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Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. We are open most days by appointment or chance in our new location in NW Portland. To see more images of most of our books, please visit our website. Proprietor: David Abel…
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