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Lost originals
- Title
- Lost originals / David B. Goldstein.
- Author
- Goldstein, David B. (Associate lecturer)
- Publication
- [Toronto] : BookThug, [2016]
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-708 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 112 pages : illustrations (some colour); 23 cm
- Summary
- "Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art. Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer, scholar, and critic David B. Goldstein, explores the potential of metaphoric translation. Taking as his foundation the notion that every act of speaking is a translation from one sort of experience to another, Goldstein developed each part of Lost Originals as an act of metaphor and an act of translation, and vice versa. While skirting a humorous line, Goldstein's innovative poetic 'experiments' ultimately comprise an elegiac collection for a series of "lost originals," a group of objects and experiences that can only be accessed through language. In this way, Goldstein's encounters with a menagerie of objects and sources-from porcelain figurines, maps, and soundscapes, to computer-generated email spam, How-To manuals, and journalism about sharks-yield a myriad of voices, giving metaphorical speech to the unspeaking or unspoken, and at the same time, uncovering a hidden and surprising beauty in language normally viewed as impenetrable or utilitarian. Drawing comparisons to Jody Gladding's Translation from Bark Beetle (2014) and Susan Howe's That This (2010), Lost Originals' allusive and layered poetics will appeal to readers of poetry and translation who are interested in the power of objects and the boundaries of poetry and language."--
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Note
- Poems.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-708
- ISBN
- 9781771662727
- 1771662727
- OCLC
- 945951089
- Author
- Goldstein, David B. (Associate lecturer), author.
- Title
- Lost originals / David B. Goldstein.
- Publisher
- [Toronto] : BookThug, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Other Form:
- Goldstein, David B., 1972-, author. Lost originals. (CaOONL)20169050173
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-708