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Swallowsby Martin Corless-smith
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Poetry. Martin Corless-Smith's SWALLOWS uses the metaphor of the House to explore the uncanny presence and absence of self, and world, in poetry. With embodiments ranging from the eighteenth-century inquiry into the whereabouts of the Sabine Villa-a search determined to locate a physical site behind Horace's celebrated verse-to lines transcribed from the walls of a house, these poems acknowledge the desire for the presence of the physical in the written, while they reify the beguiling distance between writing and the world. Martin Corless-Smith lives and teaches in Boise, Idaho. He is the author of several books of poetry, including NOTA and COMPLETE TRAVELS, both carried by SPD. "Clearly this is a major poetry as well as a problematic one-very possibly the former condition is itself what demands the latter"-Ron Silliman. Synopsis:Swallows uses the metaphor of the House to explore the uncanny presence and absence of self, and world, in poetry. With embodiments ranging from the eighteenth-century inquiry into the whereabouts of the Sabine Villa--a search determined to locate a physical site behind Horace's celebrated verse--to lines transcribed from the walls of a house, these poems acknowledge the desire for the presence of the physical in the written, while they reify the beguiling distance between writing and the world. Throughout the book, swallows act as a kind of genius loci: presences that arrive and depart continually. Swallows is a continuation of Nota's neo-Romantic desire to react through words to some original world--to see that world as poetical and meaningful even as we acknowledge that the body of the poet vanishes in the instant of the poem, that the world is not manifest in the poem, and that it is impossible to know just what of the world or the self is ever iterable. Synopsis:Swallows uses the metaphor of the House to explore the uncanny presence and absence of self, and world, in poetry. Synopsis:Swallows draws on the various metaphorical implications of the House in its exploration of the uncanny presence and absence of self and world in poetry. From poems concerned with the eighteenth-century inquiry into the whereabouts of Horace's Sabine Villa--a search determined to locate an actual physical site behind Horace's celebrated verse--to poems in the final section transcribed from the walls of a house, these poems acknowledge the desire for the presence of the physical in the written, while understanding the necessary distance between writing and the world. Throughout the book, swallows act as a kind of genius loci: presences that arrive and depart continually. About the AuthorMARTIN CORLESS-SMITH is a native of Worcestershire, England. He teaches poetry and literature in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Boise State University. He is the author of Nota (2003), Complete Travels (2000), and At Piscator (1997). What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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