Or, The Ambiguities

Poetry. OR, THE AMBIGUITIES is a book of long poems that asks how we correspond with the dead. Written with and through various works by Herman Melville, the poems in this collection invent new visual forms in order to playfully enact Jack Spicer's idea that poems are "how we dead men write to each other."
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Or, The Ambiguities

Poetry. OR, THE AMBIGUITIES is a book of long poems that asks how we correspond with the dead. Written with and through various works by Herman Melville, the poems in this collection invent new visual forms in order to playfully enact Jack Spicer's idea that poems are "how we dead men write to each other."
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Or, The Ambiguities

Or, The Ambiguities

by Karen Weiser
Or, The Ambiguities

Or, The Ambiguities

by Karen Weiser

Overview


Poetry. OR, THE AMBIGUITIES is a book of long poems that asks how we correspond with the dead. Written with and through various works by Herman Melville, the poems in this collection invent new visual forms in order to playfully enact Jack Spicer's idea that poems are "how we dead men write to each other."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937027612
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Publication date: 12/01/2015
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


Karen Weiser is the author of OR, THE AMBIGUITIES (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), TO LIGHT OUT (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Dear Pierre (Well Greased Press), Placefullness (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Pitching Woo (Cy Press). She was recently awarded a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, a Process Space residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is currently working on the libretto for an opera ("You Who Made the Heavens Incline") about one of the first great composers, Kassia, a 9th century Byzantine nun, in addition to writing a young adult fantasy novel. She lives in New York City where she teaches and writes on 19th century American Literature.
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Poetry
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Poetry
American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Women authors->21st century

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