Sweep by Abel, David

Sweep (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946104694)

Vendor: David Abel
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Sweep by Abel, David

Sweep

$21.00
Sweep by Abel, David

Sweep

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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Sweep is not a long poem or a series of short poems but a log of practice, determined / to find a structure to inhabit to bits. The form's generosity lets the bits live, passes them along, unforeseeable, irregular, and ordinary. It tells us what it is as it goes: The Encyclopedia of Unfinished Business. But also, A library is a cemetery in which every grave has a voice, and can speak. In this openwork, isolate moments float in silence, cottonwood-fluff light, carried together by a wandering ground bass. Did I say silence? Made of words: no single poems but a noncount poetry, including even a certain unmodified noun. This notation can be laugh-out-loud funny-- Big 12 defense a sieve? That's grudge talk.-- or gently devastating-- Everyone leads three simultaneous lives: / their hidden work, their death, and their disguise.-- or both at once.

Author: David Abel
ISBN-10: 1946104698
ISBN-13: 9781946104694
Publisher: Chax Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2026
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
By David Abel
By David Abel
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David Abel is a poet, editor, and interdisciplinary artist, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. With a group of friends he founded the Spare Room reading series in 2002, still going strong in its twenty-fourth year. The author of more than two dozen books, chapbooks, artist's books, and text objects, his most recent publications are a chapbook of poems, Equifinality, from Crane's Bill Books in Albuquerque, NM; two books based on performance scores -- XIV Eclipses and Selected Durations. An expanded bilingual book of the Eclipses is coming from Escandalar (Mexico).

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