Poetry. Winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. The devotions, time-stamped lyrics, and prose-poem meditations that make up HOUR BOOK track the simultaneous experience of two significant life events--a birth and a death--while investigating artistic, historical, philosophical, and political constructions of time. Intertexts range from medieval Books of Hours , to Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , to E.P. Thompson's writings on time and capitalism, to Yoko Ono's performance art. These poems attempt to make the ...
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Poetry. Winner of the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. The devotions, time-stamped lyrics, and prose-poem meditations that make up HOUR BOOK track the simultaneous experience of two significant life events--a birth and a death--while investigating artistic, historical, philosophical, and political constructions of time. Intertexts range from medieval Books of Hours , to Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles , to E.P. Thompson's writings on time and capitalism, to Yoko Ono's performance art. These poems attempt to make the powerful abstraction of time visceral; to turn time into a room we might enter together and explore.
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Add this copy of Hour Book to cart. $32.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Ahsahta Press.
Add this copy of Hour Book to cart. $61.93, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Ahsahta Press.
