Reading Novalis in Montana Paperback / softback
by Melissa Kwasny
Paperback / softback
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Drawing inspiration from Novalis (1772-1801) a poet who, like the other adherents of early German Romanticism, believed in the correspondence between inner and outer worlds, Kwasny divines the palpable and ineffable ways in which inherited traditions--indigenous culture, mythology, romanticism, modernism, surrealism, postmodernism, and more--inform daily life. Finding inspiration in the mountain West, Kwasny weaves a shimmering web of connections.
Reading Novalis in Montana stretches boundaries with a section of "reading poems"--poems in dialogue with romantic and modernist poets, including Ezra Pound, H.D., Novalis, Dickinson, as well as a sequence that is a twenty-first century take on "The Wasteland," included with stunning lyric poems. Using luxuriant syntax to string together conditional clauses, these poems throw the reader backward and forward within a line and a poem.
Alternatively, repetition offers a commentary on meaning, chopping perception into fragments.
Combined with a charming self-qualification that deliberately interrupts momentum, this work smartly ties the reader back down to earth. Throughout details of lived experience emerge--hiking through the Pacific Northwest, helping a friend deal with cancer, sorting through the ruins of a relationship --and yet the interior voice is always tuned to the physical world, envisioning the shared understanding that connects all life.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Milkweed Editions
- Publication Date:12/03/2009
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- ISBN:9781571314291
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Milkweed Editions
- Publication Date:12/03/2009
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- ISBN:9781571314291