Vespers: Kuhl House Poets
Autor Jane Lewtyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2026 – vârsta ani
Through nightly devotion, the speaker of these poems maps ritual until it degrades: the speaker as an obedient robot, a scribe-concubine, a centaur wearing skates, a poet seeking virtuosity and dexterity. Vespers asks: What if writing prompts are a bad idea? What if one could become addicted to the incremental process? Is it possible to walk away from an addiction without suffering and trauma?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781685971014
ISBN-10: 1685971016
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Seria Kuhl House Poets
ISBN-10: 1685971016
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Iowa Press
Colecția University Of Iowa Press
Seria Kuhl House Poets
Recenzii
“Jane Lewty transforms the ancient ritual of evening prayer into a searching, contemporary art of attention. Through antiphons, hymns, and restless meditations, she threads together city light and basilica shadow, art history and automatons, dread and devotion, asking what it means to persist—on the bench, in the hour, within the sentence. These poems are intellectually agile and lyrically electric. Radiant, restless, and formally daring, Vespers makes twilight an aperture where language itself becomes a form of necessary vigil.”—Peter Gizzi, author, Fierce Elegy
“This careening, language-rich text asks what devotional, ritual, or practiced habit causes—invokes—the body, self, or soul to become self-legible, to ‘enter the actual present.’ This masterful project unfolds as a series of poetic, investigative responses to algorithmic commands orbiting around liturgical, calendrical, devotional, and sexual practice. What, here, is being divined? With excruciating, particular/particulate attention to the body as a lightning rod to presence, as erotic and philosophic filament amidst a certain unease of noise, of hour notation, of city streets, of memory, history, and wheeling cosmos, Jane Lewty iterates and reiterates a self toward sensation, toward mind’s body’s felt awareness, physical presence emplaced on the plane between the heavens—the weather, the solar system, a lurking sense of sacrament, and something else, Baltimore’s intersections, daily living’s domestic objects, the incessant ticking of hours, the sartorial, viewed self; a body pinned there as da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is pinned, or as an insect, a butterfly, might be pinned. Lewty builds with fine-tuned language a phenomenological, conceptual world in which her two directives—to ‘be an elaborate robot. be a full-blooded body’—are not in opposition, and in their poetic conjoining reach for something tethered to the divine, but anchored here, in each particulate, noticed instant.”—Cody-Rose Clevidence, author, This Household of Earthly Nature
“This careening, language-rich text asks what devotional, ritual, or practiced habit causes—invokes—the body, self, or soul to become self-legible, to ‘enter the actual present.’ This masterful project unfolds as a series of poetic, investigative responses to algorithmic commands orbiting around liturgical, calendrical, devotional, and sexual practice. What, here, is being divined? With excruciating, particular/particulate attention to the body as a lightning rod to presence, as erotic and philosophic filament amidst a certain unease of noise, of hour notation, of city streets, of memory, history, and wheeling cosmos, Jane Lewty iterates and reiterates a self toward sensation, toward mind’s body’s felt awareness, physical presence emplaced on the plane between the heavens—the weather, the solar system, a lurking sense of sacrament, and something else, Baltimore’s intersections, daily living’s domestic objects, the incessant ticking of hours, the sartorial, viewed self; a body pinned there as da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is pinned, or as an insect, a butterfly, might be pinned. Lewty builds with fine-tuned language a phenomenological, conceptual world in which her two directives—to ‘be an elaborate robot. be a full-blooded body’—are not in opposition, and in their poetic conjoining reach for something tethered to the divine, but anchored here, in each particulate, noticed instant.”—Cody-Rose Clevidence, author, This Household of Earthly Nature
Notă biografică
Jane Lewty is author of Bravura Cool and In One Form to Find Another. She teaches humanities at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Descriere
Often called “evening prayer,” vespers is held around sunset. Its purpose: to give thanks for the day and offer a sacrifice of praise to God. In Jane Lewty’s Vespers, she superimposes the tropes of the Christian ritual onto a very different type of sacrifice—that of making art.