Patterns of Animus

OWENS, Rochelle

ISBN 10: 1945784121 / ISBN 13: 9781945784125

Published by Texture Press, (Norman, Oklahoma), 2022

About this Item

First edition. Octavo. 152pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Fine. "Rochelle Owens author's copy Philadelphia 2022.".

Seller Inventory # 546626

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns of Animus
• Publisher: Texture Press, (Norman, Oklahoma)
• Publication Date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1945784121
• ISBN 13: 9781945784125
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

"Patterns of Animus" is award-winning poet and playwright Rochelle Owens's stunning new long poem. In it, she captures the two often oppositional processes of Modernism and Postmodernism in her work. On the one hand, her weaving, incantatory rhythms and the reflexive nature of her subject matter, clearly take on the constructive act of developing the poem’s own epistemology. On the other, however, she often dismantles the very episteme she has built, and as it is torn down, she replaces it with the process of becoming. In some cases, the “becoming” process starts as an “undoing” or dismantling.

For a deeper understanding of the long poem and her body of work, this new volume contains illustrative essays, reviews, and commentary by literary critics and contemporary poets and playwrights who shine light on the fascinating darker reaches of her work. The writers include Jane Augustine, George Economou, Jackson Mac Lowe, Susan Smith Nash, Toby Olson, and Karl Young.