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Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent - a lost leader, a remote love, a protege not yet born - and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next. "Videos of Fish," the opening sequence, speaks to the spirit of the poet's late father, adapting devices from Dante, Tibetan metaphysical philosophy, and the biomechanics of the most primitive of vertebrate bodies, the fish, to envision paths of the disembodied soul. "How difficult it is to remain one person," the poet claims, echoing Czeslaw Milosz; in its progress between persons, the collection's regular shifts in mode and form include the purgatorian tercet, the Japanese poetic diary, didactic verse, the Persian ghazal, the erasure, and miniature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Errings
• Author: Peter Streckfus
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780823257751
• ISBN: 0823257754
• ID: 04941458
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. March 2014

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