Under the Sign

Lauterbach,Ann

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Author
Lauterbach,Ann
Publish Date
09/24/2013
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Number of Pages
160
Edition
F 1st Printing
ISBN-10
0143124188
ISBN-13
9780143124184
SKU
9780143124184

Description

A new collection from the author of Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry

Ann Lauterbach is one of America’s most innovative and provocative poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous and intellectually charged poems. In this, her ninth book of poems, Lauterbach pursues longstanding inquiries into how language forms and informs our understanding of the relation between empirical observation and subjective response; worldly attachment and inwardness; the given and the chosen. The poems set out not so much to find cogent resolutions to these fluid dyads as to open them to the fact of unknowing that is at the core of all human curiosity and desire. A central prose section tracks along a meditative edge, engaging the risky task of opening the mind to the limits of apprehension; the final section evokes, in the figure of the instructor, the essential contemporary question of how information becomes knowledge.