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PublisherOmnidawn Publishing

ISBN-101890650730

ISBN-139781890650735

eBay Product ID (ePID)201532041

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Book TitleLandscape Portrait Figure Form

Number of Pages46 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicGeneral, American / General

GenrePoetry

AuthorNot Available

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight3 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Rader articulates what we all know but often overlook: that our obsession with the materiality of text and paint-and frequent appraisal of these media as unfit to adequately represent our lives and experiences-resonates deeply with our anxiety about our own physicality, our own finite and incommensurate bodies. Rader reminds us that, as we seek to construct verbally our essentialized self-portraits, we only acquire new, textual bodies, complete with all the earthly encumbrances and stark inadequacies of the old ones. We remain terrified to "wake out of / the wrong body and walk uncovered / into the mistaken world.", "Rader articulates what we all know but often overlook: that our obsession with the materiality of text and paint-and frequent appraisal of these media as unfit to adequately represent our lives and experiences-resonates deeply with our anxiety about our own physicality, our own finite and incommensurate bodies. Rader reminds us that, as we seek to construct verbally our essentialized self-portraits, we only acquire new, textual bodies, complete with all the earthly encumbrances and stark inadequacies of the old ones. We remain terrified to "wake out of / the wrong body and walk uncovered / into the mistaken world."-Maggie Millner, ZYZZYVA

SynopsisA frog and a toad walk into a book of poems. They meet Paul Klee, Hieronymus Bosch, Adrienne Rich, Sesshu Toyo, Mark Twain, all of them escorted by Dean Rader. There are adventure poems, landscapes, assassins, self portraits, there are what some might call "ideas" mixed with some very funny moments, and what we might quite seriously call "emotions." This collection will engage those interested in innovative, arresting, humorously engaging poetry.