Rafting Into the After Life

Rafting Into the After Life 42 Poems from One Year

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Publisher's Synopsis

"The 42 poems in this book were culled from a 365-poem opus titled One Year. Each poem in One Year was composed according to the following method:

I would take a day--say, January 18--and, sifting through more than 25 years of journals, extract everything that was entered on that date (thoughts, reportage, dreams, conversations, overheard remarks, passages copied from books I was reading, etc.). Then I would isolate clusters of material, combine and recombine them, amplifying and further atomizing the fragments and finally whittling them down to no more than one page of text. so while everything that "happens" in a given poem did indeed transpire on its given date, that date is unmoored in time, representing many years and as many places and circumstances--ergo, the "she" who appears in the first line of a particular poem is not necessarily the same "she" who appears in the next line."

-Mikhail Horowitz

Book information

ISBN: 9781930337336
Publisher: Codhill Press
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 50
Weight: 136g
Height: 249mm
Width: 173mm
Spine width: 5mm