Gustaf Sobin. Towards the Blanched ...
Gustaf Sobin. Towards the Blanched Alphabets. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 1998 In his sixth collection, Towards the Blanched Alpha bets, expatriate American bard Gustaf Sobin presents a series of metrical compositions composed in the territory between Emerson's announcement that "language is fossil poetry" and a more skeptical, post-structualist dismissal of so a romantic portrait of linguistic origins. These piece of poetrys are by and large meditations that succeed from Sobin's encounters with the artefactual detritus--the axheads and potsherds--of the Neolithic cultivations that once ...
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