{"product_id":"goest-paperback","title":"Goest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCole Swensen is the author of ten previous books of poetry including Goest, which was a National Book Award Finalist. She has also won the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and a National Poetry Series selection, as well as grants for translating and writing. She is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 63\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2004)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290312159481,"sku":"9781882295432","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/h_95nguUhe9781882295432.webp?v=1776282955","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/goest-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}