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| Title: | Death Drive Through Gaia Paris
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| Series: | (Open Spaces Series, 4) |
| Author: | Charles Noble |
| ISBN: | 1552382265 : 9781552382264 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 115x180mm |
| Pages: | 68 |
| Weight: | .078 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - January 2007 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900- |
In his latest work, Charles Noble further reins in the already tight haiku only to let loose, a "logopoeic" poetry. Poems of "splendid rigour" or riddles of wit that are solved by "lifetime" insights -- a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognising the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media & markets -- à la Frederic Jameson. & yet, these "haikus" go straight -- to "the shock of the na?ve". They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotle's sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, & enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarrelling couple in the bar hanging on each other's words & insistent with "what do you mean by [a simple word]?" But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span -- think architecture -- & which, more radically, in the "pleated/ crossword", "make[s]/ good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity" (p. 57), no expenses, except for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.
