Everything Reminds You of Something Else

by Elana Wolff

Overview

Thin is the line between dreaming and wakefulness, wellness and disorder, here and there, this and that. Elana Wolff's poems illuminate the porousness of states and relations, the connective compulsion of poetic perception, in language that blends the oracular and the everyday, the elliptical and the lucent, the playful and the heart-raking. The de- and re-constructive workings of the poems in Everything Reminds You of Something Else argue for empathy and attentiveness. At the core of this work is the belief that art is the sanest rage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771831895
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Series:	Essential Poets series , #240
Pages:	90
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Elana Wolff is a Toronto-based poet, essayist, translator, and creator and facilitator of therapeutic art courses. Everything Reminds You of Something Else is her fifth solo collection of poems.

Table of Contents

Jerusalem Day 1

The Bower 2

Tower 4

The Bestiary 5

Vole 6

Grenade 7

Metamorphoses 8

The Innocent Spin of Dreaming Real 9

Spool 10

Tammuz 11

Velocity Text 12

Fractals 13

A Panegyric 15

The Stunt Bear, the Bell Tree 16

Quadriptych 17

Lo 18

Rain 19

Ouija Board 20

Update on Nearness 22

Altarpieces 23

Azimuth 24

Air 25

Thin Girl 26

Meridian 28

Promontory 32

Elemental 33

Think of a Name for the Bird in the Glossy Photo 34

Everything Reminds You of Something Else 36

K 37

Hohner 38

The Man with the Perfumed Moustache 39

Year of the Horse 40

Horse and Ride Her 45

Cord 46

Theory of Dreaming 47

Oculus 48

Summer 49

Burnt Bridge 50

Riding to Ronda 51

Belt of Living Things: a zodiac suite 53

November on the Cusp of Archer 57

Cuy 58

Strand 59

World Light 60

Choir 61

And Somewhere in the After-image Winged Creatures Tread Gently on the Soft Ground 62

Walking Song 63

Notes 65

Acknowledgements 66

About the Author 71

Editorial Reviews

"Wolff's lyrics showcase a world of constant, ironic, and dreadful surprise. Her sensibility is attuned to reversals, and she chooses sharply cut images to communicate her plain-toned shock a the unexpected inconsistencies and awry events... Wolff's work recalls that of U.S. poet Marianne Moore. There are the same plotted indents and line-lengths, the same detonating denotations." — George Elliott Clarke

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