Afterrimages

by Retallack, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780819512239
• ISBN10: 0819512230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Joan Retallack offers a book of forms, like the medieval Book of Hours, intended to draw readers into a meditative experience of time, space, language, the many humors of chance and design, as they intersect and leave their traces on the page. All of civilization to date, all of history is after all aftermath, afterthought, afterimage. The language graphics of AFTERRIMAGES lay claim to the fragility -- the gift, the terror, and the whimsy -- of the remnant that all images are. Their playful nature is born of the conviction that the present tense -- tense, tensile with immanent futurity -- must extend itself toward the unintelligible and unknown. This is the frontier where the image hovers on the edge of its own transfiguration, the threshold where poetry can take place.

Author Biography

JOAN RETALLACK teaches at the University of Maryland interdisciplinary University Honors Program and is an associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Her Errata 5uite was chosen by Robert Creeley for the 1994 Columbia Book Award. She is co-author, with John Cage, of MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES on Words*Art*Music.

Table of Contents

Afterrimages	p. 1
Icarus Fffffalling	p. 35
Journal of a Lunar Eclipse	p. 57
Amerrata	p. 69
Autobiographialitteraria I	p. 77
Autobiographialitteraria II	p. 93
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