Death drive through Gaia Paris / by Charles Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Noble, Charles

Series:

Open Spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 pages)

Place of Publication:

Calgary University of Calgary Press 2007

Canada : University of Calgary Press, 2007

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience. Death Drive marks a counter-turn in the work of one of Southern Alberta's most distinctive writers." - Chris Jennings, Department of English, University of Ottawa In this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form - haiku - only to let loose a "logopoeic" poetry. He presents poems of extraordinary rigour and riddles of wit that are solved by "lifetime" insights - a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognizing the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media and markets - á la Fredric Jameson. And yet, these "haikus" go straight - to "the shock of the naïve." They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotle's sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, and enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarreling couple in the bar hanging on each other's words and insistent with "what do you mean by [a simple word]?" But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span - think architecture - and which, more radically, in the "pleated-crossword," "make's good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity," no expenses, save for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781552386644 (ebook)

9781552383254 (ebook)

OCLC:

1250426610

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6gqrpt

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access