Representing absence / Deborah Meadows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meadows, Deborah.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Green Integer (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Green Integer (Series) ; 114.

Green Integer ; 114

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 16 cm.

Edition:

First Green Integer edition.

Place of Publication:

København [Copenhagen] ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2004.

Summary:

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 Baudelaire, 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.

Contents:

From "The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick"

Not a treatise on the line segment

Faux translation of Charles Baudelaire's "To the Reader"

Notes:

"Winner of the Gertrude Stein Poetry Award 2004."

ISBN:

1931243778

OCLC:

55635919