Leans

home > books > smp > 9781844713196



Allen Fisher Leans
Biographical note: Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, lives in Hereford, Crewe and ‘in transit’, works at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire, where he is Head of Contemporary Arts. He has exhibited in many shows including London 2003, Hereford 1994 and York 1993. Examples are in the Tate, the Living Museum, Iceland and various private collections. His last four books were Place, Entanglement, Gravity and Singularity Stereo. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844713196 ISBN: 9781844713196 Author: Allen Fisher Title: Leans Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BB Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Nov-07 Extent: 192pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 19 mm Weight: 288 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 14.99 Price: USD 26.95 Rights: World	See larger image HARDBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£14.99~~ £11.99	Short description/annotation: The book Leans completes the poet’s twenty-three year project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The work continues and extends the poet’s concern for how we know anything and what vocabulary humans use to describe it. The poems encourage the reader’s confidence and surprise. Main description: Leans is the condition experienced by a jet pilot as he leaves the Earth’s gravity. The book brings together four chapter-books and the remaining poetry that completes the poet’s twenty-three-year project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The earlier two volumes were Gravity and Entanglement, published in 2004 and 2005. The work includes brief and clear descriptions of scientific vocabulary along with poetry that demonstrates enjambment and transformations of poetry derived from collage practice or a practice that uses more than occasion to inform the work all at once in the same place. The poetry continues and extends the poet’s concern for how we know anything and what vocabulary humans use to describe it. The texts therefore draw on unusual as well as straightforward words to achieve a rich range from blend to disruption. This encourages the reader’s confidence but also provides many instances of surprise. Table of contents: SOFTSTONE Over The Top Olbolo Oleke Palmer House Papa Doc Walk Pasmala Pecking Planetary Bow Plasma Plasmaphase Proto-Cyclotron Quasar Radio Radio Jet Radio Window Remote-Sensing Shuffle SINGULARITY STEREO Singularity The Giant Slits Sloopy Slop Snake Hips Josep Soler Spinor Stamping Sequence Stereo-Receiver STROLL & STRUT STEP Stroll Strut Step SHEDBOX Ostranenie Palais Pin-Cushion Slow Drag Sway Back Swim Trucking Turkey Trot Twist Twisted Camel Underbelly Jump Yanayallow Subsequent Looping Suzy Q Then Learning Torus Viscosity Zig-Zag MEZZ MERROUND View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (88 KB) Excerpt from book: Plasma Mineral science refers to a bright green, translucent variety of cryptocrystalline silica, chalcedony, as plasma. Electronics gives it as a synonym for the positive column of gas discharge where there’s no resultant charge (where the number of anions and cations is the same). It is a source of radio emission. Physiology refers to plasma as the water fluid in which blood cells are suspended. Cosmologists still speak of as primordial plasma prior galaxy formation. The Whole Earth Catalogue calls this soup ambiplasma. Also referred to are bioplasma, plasmolysis and plasmodesmata in plant physiology. In 1958, Hubble’s ex-student, Allen Sandage, discovered during research into this area that what Hubble had identified in distant galaxies as bright stars were clumps of hot stars surrounded by a plasma ionised by stars. He consequently become involved in upping Hubble’s distance scale. It is worth recalling Sandage’s notes on the use of a jiggle camera smearing images by moving the plate in a rectangle during exposure. Painters, and some sculptors, refer to moulding the substance in their work. Plasma occurs in thermonuclear reactions like the sun. The social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoidem, cell’s sudden action release of cyclic AMP in many ways resembles the sudden active inrush of sodium ions through nerve cell’s plasma membrane. Unpublished endorsement : An alphabetical list of dances found in 1982 gave Gravity as a Consequence of Shape its titles, its scope, but not its structures. There are many spacetimes and many pertinent voices and in this, the last serial publication of the project, we hear them speak in the only human time the productive reader has – now. Like cosmic paradox, the project’s farthest point from its origin brings us back to its beginnings: to that list and to a culture which can (still) only be dreamt of. Robert Sheppard Unpublished endorsement : If poetry is the scholar’s art, then Allen Fisher remakes scholarship in the spirit of poetic inquiry. In all his work, Fisher has committed himself to a precarious openness toward knowledge. Leans moves from an exploration of language as the material of information to an emergent lyricism of facticity as n-dimensional space. Leans is a masterful work in the project of undoing mastery. Charles Bernstein