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1) Year Zero
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English
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Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along song lines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson's poetry, poised and listening on this hinge of creativity, ontological wonder is informed by awareness of the paradoxes at the heart of language, that language wants you for itself, and that what is named, falls. Whether focusing on the...
2) Sharawadji
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Language
English
Description
Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association] A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness. Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work, we realize, over and over again, that each of the mind's worlds speaks a secret language, which it is the poet's task to discover and...
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Language
English
Description
Astonishingly deft poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning," an animacy and urgency in which every object is potent with actions, past and present; every action is alive with the potential of what it might move in the world. And since every object is more than we know in our...
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