"Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear. . . . What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh."--D. A. Powell, author of "Tea and Lunch" "At the heart of this ravishing book about seeing is a distrust of the visionary. Brian Teare engages in a transgressive surveillance of soul and language, love and faith, matter and the immaterial, and the linkages among them. The result is poetry that is formally daring, capacious in eye and mind. These poems are splendid and dirty prayers, fierce accomplishments in our ...
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"Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear. . . . What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh."--D. A. Powell, author of "Tea and Lunch" "At the heart of this ravishing book about seeing is a distrust of the visionary. Brian Teare engages in a transgressive surveillance of soul and language, love and faith, matter and the immaterial, and the linkages among them. The result is poetry that is formally daring, capacious in eye and mind. These poems are splendid and dirty prayers, fierce accomplishments in our disorienting times."--Rick Barot, author of "Want" "In these formally precise poems, Brian Teare explores the distances between the lover and the beloved, between the image and the word, between God and prayer, between the seen and unseen. By turns lyric and stuttered, and in many cases spoken from a Cartesian epistemological ground zero, these poems reach with urgency and passion toward a knowledge both impossible and necessary--and therein lies their deep humanness. This is a stunning and complex book."--Jane Mead, author of "The Usable Field" "If it is the human condition to leave the 'mind / unanswered, ' then Brian Teare knows how to make solace from the erotic textures of both doubt and its ensouled cousin: the unknowing we experience as wonder. Teare redefines transcendence in these complexly melodic poems so that 'poised at / the lip of spillage, each image trembles as it's written.' Here language is the consummate lover: lush, tactile, lithe, and responsive. The interchange between poet and lover, utterance and uncertainty is a confession: 'I desire / something / neither received nor seen.' The fractured world nurtures a mystery so compelling that it makes 'each mind to itself creation come crawling / matter out of nothing.'"--Elizabeth Robinson, author of "The Orphan and Its Relations"
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Add this copy of Sight Map: Poems (Volume 26) (New California Poetry) to cart. $10.36, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by University of California Press.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good jacket. Berkeley. 2009. March 2009. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark On Top Edge. 9780520258754. 87 pages. hardcover. keywords: American Literature Poetry. DESCRIPTION-In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a postconfessional candor to embody the ‘open field' tradition of such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. Teare provides us with poems that insist on the simultaneous physical embodiment of tactile pleasure-that which is found in the textures of thought and language-as well as the action of syntax. Partly informed by an ecological imagination that leads him back to Emerson and Thoreau, Teare's method and fragmented style are nevertheless up to the moment. Remarkable in its range, Sight Map serves at once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim's gnostic progress, an improvised field guide, and a postmodern ‘pillowbook, ' recording the erotic conflation of lover and beloved, deity and doubter. Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning The Room Where I Was Born, as well as the forthcoming volume Pleasure and two chapbooks. He has received Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships. inventory #37517.
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New. No Jacket. Berkeley: University of California Press (2006) First edition. First printing. Hardbound/cloth. New. A pristine unread copy. This is the hardcover edition, issued without jacket, in a very small printing, probably less than 1, 000. Part of the NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY SERIES, edited by Robert Hass, Calvin Bedient, Brenda Hillman, and Forrest Gander. Never opened. Smoke-free. Shipped in a well padded box. You cannot find a better copy. [cp]
