Kern / Derek Beaulieu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaulieu, Derek.

Contributor:

Punctum Books, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Logos (Symbols).

logos.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 pages).

Place of Publication:

Earth, Milky Way : punctum books, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges’s Library of Babel, Kern balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of meaning’s reach. Using dry-transfer lettering, Derek Beaulieu made these concrete pieces by hand, building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves. This is poetry closer to architecture and design than confession, in which letters are released from their usual semantic duties as they slide into unexpected affinities and new patterns. Kern highlights the gaps inside what we see and what we know, filling the familiar with the singular and the just seen with the faintly remembered.

Notes:

Available through punctum books.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication.

ISBN:

1-68571-177-4

9781685711771

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access