{"product_id":"goest-cole-swensen-9781882295432","title":"Goest","description":"\u003cp\u003eTreating subjects from landscape to sculpture to a 19th-century technical encyclopedia, the poet is fascinated with light, glass, mirrors, flame, ice, mercury-things transparent, evanescent, impossible to grasp. Likewise, Swensen's lyrics, which, with elliptical phrasing and play between visual and aural, change the act of seeing-and reading-offering glimpses of the spirit (or ghost) that enters a poem where the rational process breaks down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"The Invention of Streetlights\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCertain cells, it's said, can generate light on their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are organisms that could fit on the head of a pin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand light entire rooms. .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the Middle Ages, you could hire a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon any corner with a torch to light you home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere lamps made of horn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand from above a loom of moving flares, we watched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotre Dame seem small. .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the streets stand still. .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1890, it took a pound of powdered magnesium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto photograph a midnight ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Goest, sonorous with a hovering 'ghost' which shimmers at the root of all things, is a stunning meditation-even initiation-on the act of seeing, proprioception, and the alchemical properties of light as it exists naturally and inside the human realm of history, lore, invention and the 'whites' of painting. Light becomes the true mistress and possibly the underlying language of all invention. Swensen's poetry documents a penetrating 'intellectus'-light of the mind-by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent.\"-Anne Waldman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cole Swensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1882295439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882295432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2004 pg. 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2005 pg. 94","brand":"Cole Swensen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48152928747775,"sku":"9781882295432","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6808299-9120-4936-8d27-15227184242d.jpg?v=1770780139","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goest-cole-swensen-9781882295432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}