The Adjacent Possible
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Green Writers Press
Published:9th Nov '21
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A book-length sequence of linked poems, The Adjacent Possible centers on problems of consciousness, inter-subjective relation, theories of emergence, and Buddhist philosophy. These thematic concerns emerge through the dialogic exchange between two abstract figures, as they range across a variety of landscapes and poetic forms, including free verse, hybrid forms, and the traditional Japanese forms of haibun, tanka, and renga. The questions The Adjacent Possible explores are these: How does consciousness emerge into being, and how does one subject, human or otherwise, connect with another? How might poetry—as aural, visual, and elemental matter—catalyze these forms of relation?
'This beautifully sinuous collection ignites language and the field around it, enacting the deepest questions of materiality: the hinge between self and nature, vision and substance...It is minimalism as amplitude, a poetics attentive to the smallest function words -- prepositions, conjunctions, articles. Reading such exquisitely made, bioluminescent work is mind altering. I was mesmerized. Dazzled." Alice Fulton, author of Barely Composed
"Gorgeously spare, hypnotic, the poems in The Adjacent Possible are a meditation on an 'adjacent' possibility '[w]ithout I, without / you,' the insight that 'the joint of two not solids . . . is no joint at all'... The poems in this collection beckon to the relationship of all beings, examine the 'flurried noises' of language, the 'substrata' of consciousness that distinguishes seer and seen, the eye the 'gracejoint.'" Kathleen Hellen
ISBN: 9781950584581
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 122g
94 pages