Spooring by Patrick Barron (English) Paperback Book

Description: Spooring by Patrick Barron Spooring is an errant travelogue along the Apennines in search of language in place and place in language along paths not nearly as untrammeled and forgotten as they pretend to be. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The interconnected texts in Spooring have their origin in a slow journey down the Apennine Mountains in central and southern Italy over the course of a number of months. The genre is mixed. Poems trade places with short prose passages and transcriptions of road signs. Footnotes interrupt throughout, tempting fragments and byways. There are also a number of photographs and maps. The project is inspired in part by Robert Smithsons idea that "language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebodys head," and also the corollary--that the physical world can find itself in language. Any text risks fossilizing ideas, and perhaps all the more so texts that take as their inspiration the physical world, since the overpowering immediacy of certain places tends to trick us into believing that language generated in response or dialogue will remain somehow authentic to those places. And the heady state of the cross-country walker is vulnerable to corruption, to believing that an empathetic dialectic with the physical world is translatable. To connect ideas to matter, thoughts to place, through language engaged with language. Not a fixed relief map, but a moveable index of small traces, tracks, words, and images, messages half-dismantled, enough to begin a paragraph or stanza, but not necessarily to finish. Author Biography Patrick Barron grew up in the Pacific Northwest, lived in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and Italy for a number of years, and is now based in Boston, where he teaches at the University of Massachusetts. He as been awarded grants and prizes from the NEH, the NEA, the Fulbright Program, and the Academy of American Poets. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications such as Ditch, Boneshaker, Basalt, Words Without Boundaries, Poetry East, The Argotist, Softblow, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Forum Italicum, Two Lines, Paideuma, Italica, and Modernism/modernity. His books include Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale; Towards the Rivers Mouth, by Gianni Celati; Haiku for a Season, Haiku per una stagione, by Andrea Zanzotto; The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto; and Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology. Review Part transposed Basho heading south not north, part site specific artist loosing language from the material worlds medias res, Patrick Barrons Spooring is a caress down the spine of the Apennines, weaving its way into song. Both travelogue and commonplace book, a landscape of quotations and a quotation of landscape, this major long poem samples the silence of ancient rock, improbably preserved alpine forest, the glinting eyes of our human and nonhuman kin. Sit back weary reader/traveller--your guide is ready to sing a mountain song, an incomparable melodia dolce to take you to "that place / within / pacings / meditation."--Stephen Collis Details ISBN1950730336 Pages 130 Publisher Unsolicited Press Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1950730336 ISBN-13 9781950730339 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-03-17 Imprint Unsolicited Press Author Patrick Barron UK Release Date 2020-03-17 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126529502;

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