A Several World

By Brian Blanchfield

Book Overview

Poetry. As in the title phrase--borrowed from a 17th century poem by Robert Herrick--in which "several" is used to individuate, questions of singularity and the plural, of subjectivity and the collective, pervade this dream-quick poetry. In A SEVERAL WORLD there are glimpses of an "us down here"--in the understory, in the open clearing--and, by various projections, there is frequent attainment of an aerial vantage, a post otherwise abdicated. Landscape here is spatial theater, and a choreography recruits all standalone selves: solidarity beginning in an erotics of attunement, catching likenesses.

"This clever, busy, anxious, flirtatious poet, with his 'predilections for predicaments, ' can connect anything to anything else."--Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658171
• ISBN13: 9781937658175
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.7"