The Machinery of Sleep by Patrick Cahill
Poetry. Patrick Cahill's compressed, imagistic verse in THE MACHINERY OF SLEP offers the reader an Objectivist's eye (keen, but, with Cahill, never cold) and jazz-infused prose poems that demand attention and command respect. He speaks of There where the story and desire begin, reaching toward the ineffable and consistently arriving there--from an astonishingly beautiful poem to his young son, to another articulating the very mysteries of childhood (The dragon in the house he dreams / remembers the language even the child / crossing this field / no longer knows, / though he sang it once.), to postmodern near-surrealist riffs that keep the reader's synapses firing. This book holds you in its grip and seems to take you apart, to deconstruct you word by word, image by image, in poems that are unexpected, sometimes unsettling, and always deeply energizing.
Cahill, Patrick: - Patrick Cahill's prose and poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His poems have twice won the Central Coast Writers Award. A cofounder and editor of Ambush Review, a San Francisco- based literary and arts journal, he was also a contributing editor for the Sonoma County anthology Digging Our Poetic Roots. He received his PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz and wrote a study of Whitman and visual experience in nineteenth-century America. Portions of this work have appeared in The Daguerreian Annual and Left Curve. Patrick lives in San Francisco, where he volunteers with San Francisco Recreation & Parks in habitat restoration.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781939639219 |
| ISBN 10 | 1939639212 |
| Title | The Machinery of Sleep |
| Author | Patrick Cahill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sixteen Rivers Press |
| Year published | 2020-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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