Strange Attractors

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Louis Armand Strange Attractors
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Louis Armand lives in Prague where he directs the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University. His collections of poetry include Inexorable Weather (Arc, 2001), Land Partition (Textbase, 2001) and Malice in Underland (Textbase, 2001). He is also the author of several volumes of criticism including Solicitations: Essays on Criticism and Culture (Litteraria, 2005), Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (Karolinum, 2005) and Techne (Karolinum, 2003). He is the editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern), JoyceMedia (Litteraria) and Mind Factory (Litteraria). BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857592 ISBN-10: 1876857595 ISBN-13: 9781876857592 Author: Louis Armand Title: Strange Attractors Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 31-Jan-03 Extent: 132pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 8 mm Weight: 198 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: Bringing together poetry published during the last six years, Strange Attractors is the most recent and extensive collection by the Prague-based award winning writer Louis Armand. Among the most prolific and widely received poets of his generation, Armand’s work is luminous with verbal innovation and critical insight. This volume confirms Armand’s standing as a major figure of the Prague renaissance and the post-fin-de-siècle of English-language poetry internationally. Main description: Bringing together poetry published during the last six years, Strange Attractors is the most recent and extensive collection by the Prague-based award winning writer Louis Armand. Armand’s themes shift between New York cityscapes and the Moroccan desert; from dissections of contemporary aesthetics, philosophy and politics, to reflections on human intimacy, the sympathetic faculty and violence. Among the most prolific and widely received poets of his generation, Armand’s work has been described by Miroslav Holub as luminous with verbal innovation and critical insight. As the editor firstly of the Prague Revue and later of the PLR (Prague Literary Review) – Armand has participated in, and often presided over, many of the literary transformations and reformations of the decade since communism’s collapse in central Europe. At the same time, Armand’s work has remained strongly internationalist, eschewing the facile temptations of literary nationalism This volume confirms Armand’s standing as a major figure of the Prague renaissance and the post-fin-de-siècle of English-language poetry internationally. Table of contents: the geometry lesson some heliotropes the geometry lesson incarnedine dimensions variable psychology with nude & mondrian monument to v. tatlin stemmata: mode d’emploi oxygen as a socially useful substance deriving the circumference tenor & vehicle alembic verlaine at mons school of fontainbleau exordium against a field sinister alembic personage & emblems a perfect bride study for a portrait, june 16 festina lente base materialism trailings dimensions unknown towards a geometry of pancreatic islets craft morphology footnote to the bride cloud canyons jeu lugubre meat sciences (appliqeé) threshole concetto spaziale homage to linnaeus: systema naturae hortus conclusus anatomy lessons tendances morbides hortus conclusus rigid designators factotum rigid designators for the duration jacques cousteau est mort panopticon denfert rochereau serial noir observations towards an epitaph porte-jaretelles scopolamine chambre noire symptomologies prelude to an expedition incessant acts parthenogenesis omitting the weather plat du jour documentary an alphabetum for a.z. october prière de toucher avant-propos personal appliance une femme de trente ans lazarus abject relations two figures sleeping positions View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (68 KB) Excerpt from book: school of fontainbleau through late afternoon—the atomisers, blues, ethyl alcohol, geese in the egyptian style—it is their old familiar critique, disturbing the dust “flagrantly bored & sleeping”—for the present, the stairwell & the hall & two groundfloor bedrooms remain in darkness, stuffed like a dead grate (the sweat-thickened walls shrunken up to skin)— now is the season of many returns, queued down along the street, past the vacant taxi ranks a small manoeuvre cancels everything—sends back the vanilla-wrapped parcels, ledgers, the sagging pudenda-like ornament of a mouth raised up towards a telephone (“la voce del padrone”)—& what is it saying? but after all, there is nothing left to say, is there Unpublished endorsement: Louis Armand seeks to create a different kind of poetry. A voice that is both immediate and reflective, vital and residual. His is a poetry of extraction and distillation that merges myth and presence, that is elegiac and celebratory, ironic and sincere. John Kinsella Unpublished endorsement: Armand pursues the complex challenges language poses and his own language is luminous and original, both in structure and in poetic form. John Millett Unpublished endorsement: Armand’s ideal poet controls not primarily with language’s rhythmic music, but with how words collide and warp upon themselves … Ethan Paquin