Sounding - 9780942544770

At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with the question of how to express the enormous ecological loss of our time, poet Sam Taylor marries this collective loss to a personal story of loss involving childhood, memory, and a mother's early death to cancer, a story which culminates in a scene the speaker is compelled to revisit, relive, and revise. Along the way, the poet's experiments in a poetics of "self-erasure" create a polyphonic reading experience, enrich the book's journey into the underworld, and deepen its investigation into nonfiction, myth, and aesthetics. Weaving together a diversity of themes, styles and lyric innovation, The Book of Fools challenges and refreshes our notions of what a poem can look like and what it can accomplish. This art edition includes color illustrations of works by Picasso, Matisse, and Van Gogh, as well as stunning plankton photography by Christian & Noé Sardet.

• | Author: Barry Marks
• | Publisher: Negative Capability Press
• | Publication Date: October 14, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 84 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0942544773
• | ISBN-13: 9780942544770