Laws of Rest by Goldstein, David B.

Laws of Rest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781927040867)

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Laws of Rest by Goldstein, David B.

Laws of Rest

$20.00
Laws of Rest by Goldstein, David B.

Laws of Rest

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Laws of Rest invents a new form, the English prose sonnet ï 1/2 an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi drivers, invented verses of Virgil, found text about Middle-Eastern geopolitics, and the music of extinct butterflies merge into unpredictable collage. Presiding over all is the gender-bending character Lucy, the subject of a failed love affair conducted in convenience stores and equestrian centers. The book ends with a series of poems a friend who died young, bringing to elegaic focus the poems' quest to understand the laws of rest (a phrase taken from the Jewish laws of Sabbath observance): the stillness of loss, the mute repose at the end of speaking.

Author: David B. Goldstein
ISBN-10: 1927040868
ISBN-13: 9781927040867
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.30d
By David B. Goldstein
By David B. Goldstein
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DAVID B. GOLDSTEIN is the author of Laws of Rest, Lost Originals, and a book of criticism, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England, and two chapbooks, the most recent of which is Object Permanence. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award, Goldstein lives with his family in Toronto, where he is Associate Professor of English at York University.

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