The Invention of Culture - Paperback
by Lisa Samuels
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lisa SamuelsTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:3/15/2008Pages:84
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781905700851ISBN-10:1905700857UPC:9781905700851Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.118Product ID:SCQAJMT3EN
The poems in The Invention of Culture mix prosodic rhythm with prose syntax and variant line shapes, as though the page were not only paper but also screen and musical score inscribed by a languaged body tapping out the news. And there is news here: the strained topicality of the poems is an index of imaginative vision meeting the world's insistence that it be experienced. These poems are stories with many names - parallax histories, social dreams, compound love songs and dirges - whose inhabitable spatial structures are like event horizons that mean to let you come back to the world.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781905700851ISBN-10:1905700857UPC:9781905700851Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.118Product ID:SCQAJMT3EN
Samuels, Lisa: - Lisa Samuels grew up in the United States, Sweden, and the Middle East. She has a PhD from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on Laura Riding, Wallace Stevens, and academic poetry criticism. She publishes on Riding and other modernist and contemporary poets as well as on subjects such as linguistic beauty, poetic analysis, and intellectual property. She taught in Utah, Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Michigan before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000 to teach poetry writing and literature. In 2006, she took up a position as Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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