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Having been named : de-reading Popol Vuh : & De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air
- Title
- Having been named : de-reading Popol Vuh : & De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air / John M. Bennett ; with an introduction by Iván Argüelles.
- Author
- Bennett, John M.
- Publication
- Columbus, OH : Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021.
- ©2020
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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 23-2339 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- 39 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Bennett's realignment of this fabulous text is divided into 26 somewhat brief, but incredibly beautiful, dense, unpunctuated and asyntactic sections, each with its own title. The overall effect reading these passages is that of a sublime but often disturbing dream, that requires its own rules and sets of margins or lack thereof. The relentless run-on flow of words as enactments of sounds dredged from an archaic distance has affinities with not just earth's surface but more precisely what lies underneath, an inherent chthonic Hell. Bennett's oneiric vision plunges the reader into a shadowy, indefinable alternate reality, an aphasia of the senses. Things more often unnamed--murders, children, cries, vengeances pass through a misty lens, light transmogrified by language into a tenuous dark other-world. The text is short enough to be read in one sitting and should be in order to get its full effect, a powerfully mesmerizing excursion through this telescoped concise language into a turbulent epic scenario, not unlike the constantly shifting nuances of the Mahabharata, except that here we are in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica." --cover page [4].
- Uniform Title
- Having been named: De-reading Popol Vuh.
- De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air.
- Alternative Title
- De-reading Popol Vuh
- De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Literature.
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-2339
- ISBN
- 9781938521706
- 1938521706
- OCLC
- 1247843403
- Author
- Bennett, John M., author.
- Title
- Having been named : de-reading Popol Vuh : & De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air / John M. Bennett ; with an introduction by Iván Argüelles.
- Publisher
- Columbus, OH : Luna Bisonte Prods, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Argüelles, Ivan, 1939- writer of introduction.Luna Bisonte Prods (Publisher), publisher.
- Added Title
- Container of (work): Having been named: De-reading Popol Vuh.Container of (work): De-reading Iván Argüelles' The shape of air.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-2339