Complex Sleep

Name: Complex Sleep
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ISBN: 9781587296215

ISBN-10: 1587296217

ISBN-13: 9781587296215

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tony Tost

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Complex Sleep,Tony Tostrsquo;s ambitious second book of poems, leaps upward with an astounding multiplicity of voices, utterances, and bursts. Each leap marks a sure and precise entry into a world of images, ideas, and sensations that is brand new-the true accomplishment of any poetic work. The octet of poems that composeComplex Sleep comprises a complex organism, audacious in scope, swiping at meaning via language as fragmented music. Tost takes on the problem of physical shape, reorchestrates phrases according to the alphabet, and writes himself into the hypnagogic state between waking and dreaming. Informed by their own procedural constraints, these poems invent forms that tap the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 122
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



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