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dc.contributor.editorNoble, Charles
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-18T11:54:00Z
dc.date.available2022-07-18T11:54:00Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifierONIX_20220718_9781552386644_24
dc.identifier.issn17050715
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57447
dc.description.abstract"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 - à 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesOpen Spaces
dc.titleDeath Drive Through Gaia Paris
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527
oapen.relation.isbn9781552386644
oapen.pages80
oapen.place.publicationCalgary


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