Light Light Contributor(s): Joosten, Julie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040833 ISBN-13: 9781927040836 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2013414637 |
Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 7.9" (0.39 lbs) 120 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General's Award for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry. Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of objectivity as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the mind's movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic to the experimental, from the narrative to the lyric, consistently exploring the way language captures the undulation of a mind's working, how that rhythm becomes the embodiment of thought, and how that embodiment forms a politics engaged with the environment and its increasing alterations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Joosten, Julie: - Julie Joosten lives in Toronto. Her poems and reviews can be read in Jacket 2, Tarpaulin Sky, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead. LIGHT LIGHT (BookThug, 2013) is her first book. |