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Laws of Rest

David B. Goldstein

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Laws of Rest invents a new form, the English prose sonnet ï¿½ an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi drivers, invented verses of Virgil, found text about Middle-Eastern geopolitics, and the music of extinct butterflies merge into unpredictable collage. Presiding over all is the gender-bending character Lucy, the subject of a failed love affair conducted in convenience stores and equestrian centers. The book ends with a series of poems a friend who died young, bringing to elegaic focus the poems' quest to understand the laws of rest : the stillness of loss, the mute repose at the end of speaking.

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: October 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781927040867

Laws of Rest

David B. Goldstein

0/5 ( ratings)

Laws of Rest invents a new form, the English prose sonnet ï¿½ an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi drivers, invented verses of Virgil, found text about Middle-Eastern geopolitics, and the music of extinct butterflies merge into unpredictable collage. Presiding over all is the gender-bending character Lucy, the subject of a failed love affair conducted in convenience stores and equestrian centers. The book ends with a series of poems a friend who died young, bringing to elegaic focus the poems' quest to understand the laws of rest : the stillness of loss, the mute repose at the end of speaking.

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Paperback

Release: October 01, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781927040867

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