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OverviewInsofar is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Archival in mood, it works with and against the idea of an A–Z filing system. This alphabet is akin to a damaged rosary or abacus—an accounting system that carries on in the midst of physical or spiritual impairment. While the poems proceed alphabetically, there are gaps in representation, and redundancies. The poems get stuck in certain alphabetic registers and elide over others. Four of the poems share the same title, “Insofar,” as if transfixed by the relational reasoning set up by that adverbial phrase. The collection as a whole is cast in an adverbial mood, exploring disposition as a vital qualifier to thought and action. Its theology, insofar as it finds one, is earth-based, pluralistic, and cyclical. Its fondest prayer is that we come to our senses. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah GridleyPublisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Imprint: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.220kg ISBN: 9781936970650ISBN 10: 1936970651 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 21 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Within the artifice of the alphabet's orders--that architecture, that archive--we must find a way to inscribe an actual attention culled from the fact of our lives. We might note the facts tend to go astray, feel less than factual, and become a kind of faith. What such work requires, Sarah Gridley knows, is a strange and generous openness, one that welcomes in the world 'as the shy host might a desired guest.' Such hospitality is an ancient form of genius, a genius embodied in the kind complexities of these wondrous, wondering poems. . . . The I, the eye, is open ever-wider in these poems, somehow shy and somehow audacious, reverent and truthful, a genius of the heart and the hearth and the earth and the art."" --Dan Beachy-Quick, author of Of Silence and Song ""Although its titles form an abecedarian, Sarah Gridley's Insofar eschews ornament, irony, and merely trendy formal experiment. Her lyric poems are implicative, understated, their traces of narrative never resolving into tidy conclusions or gems of wisdom. Each stanza has a heuristic brilliance, an understated, mysterious gravity derived from the author's constant attention to the uncounterfeitable particularity of her language-- measured out in wildly alive lines broken to splay and recalibrate meanings. Gridley's poems might be said to inaugurate the school of existential intimacy.""--Forrest Gander, author of Be With" Within the artifice of the alphabet's orders--that architecture, that archive--we must find a way to inscribe an actual attention culled from the fact of our lives. We might note the facts tend to go astray, feel less than factual, and become a kind of faith. What such work requires, Sarah Gridley knows, is a strange and generous openness, one that welcomes in the world 'as the shy host might a desired guest.' Such hospitality is an ancient form of genius, a genius embodied in the kind complexities of these wondrous, wondering poems. . . . The I, the eye, is open ever-wider in these poems, somehow shy and somehow audacious, reverent and truthful, a genius of the heart and the hearth and the earth and the art. --Dan Beachy-Quick, author of Of Silence and Song Although its titles form an abecedarian, Sarah Gridley's Insofar eschews ornament, irony, and merely trendy formal experiment. Her lyric poems are implicative, understated, their traces of narrative never resolving into tidy conclusions or gems of wisdom. Each stanza has a heuristic brilliance, an understated, mysterious gravity derived from the author's constant attention to the uncounterfeitable particularity of her language-- measured out in wildly alive lines broken to splay and recalibrate meanings. Gridley's poems might be said to inaugurate the school of existential intimacy. --Forrest Gander, author of Be With Author InformationSarah Gridley is associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. Her poetry collections include Weather Eye Open, Green is the Orator, and Loom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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