Goest

Author - Cole Swensen ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Alice James Books was reviewed on 15-Oct-2008.

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Treating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury-things transparent, evanescent, impossible to grasp. Likewise Swensen´s lyrics, which, with elliptical phrasing and play between visual and aural, change the act of seeing-and reading-offering glimpses of the spirit (or ghost) that enters a poem where the rational process breaks down.

From "The Invention of Streetlights"

Certain cells, it´s said, can generate light on their own.
There are organisms that could fit on the head of a pin.
and light entire rooms. .
Throughout the Middle Ages, you could hire a man.
on any corner with a torch to light you home.
were lamps made of horn.
and from above a loom of moving flares, we watched.
Notre Dame seem small. .
Now the streets stand still. .
By 1890, it took a pound of powdered magnesium.
to photograph a midnight ball.

"Goest, sonorous with a hovering ghost´ which shimmers at the root of all things, is a stunning meditation-even initiation-on the act of seeing, proprioception, and the alchemical properties of light as it exists naturally and inside the human realm of history, lore, invention and the whites´ of painting. Light becomes the true mistress and possibly the underlying language of all invention. Swensen´s poetry documents a penetrating intellectus´-light of the mind-by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent."-Anne Waldman

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