Landscapes on a Train - Softcover

Swensen, Cole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937658414 ISBN 13: 9781937658410

Publisher: Nightboat Books, 2015

Synopsis

Influenced by the history of landscape painting, Cole Swensen’s new book is an experiment in seriality, in the different approach and scope that language must take to record the way that fluctuations of minutiae transform a whole. These poems meditate on what it is simply to look at the world, without judgment, without intervention, without appropriation. Swensen’s lyric observations, lilting and delicate, distill the act of seeing. “Swensen’s poetry documents a penetrating ‘intellectus’―light of the mind―by turns fragile, incandescent, transcendent.”―Anne Waldman

About this title

About the Author:

COLE SWENSEN is the author of 13 books of poetry, including Gravesend, and a book of essays, Noise That Stays Noise. She’s also the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and the founder and editor of La Presse, a nano-press dedicated to contemporary French work in translation. She is professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

Review:

“Swensen’s powers of description transform what could easily be an academic exercise into an aesthetic journey that for many readers will be worth taking for the sights and sounds alone.”―Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1937658414
• ISBN 13: 9781937658410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80