Description
Poetry. NOTA is part travelogue and part philosophical examination. Corless-Smith here makes a compendium: layers of reference, of history, of text over text over text. Invented and real figures watch over the Self in crisis, the Self in epiphanies of clarity, pleasure, disgust, self-disgust, and inquiry; a Self whose inclusive scope admits to a history beyond the moment of simple consumption. The setting is an England in its Golden Age, a homesick contruction to be consumed, with pleasure, in the discomfiting knowledge of its artificiality.
Author Bio
Martin Corless-Smith is an English poet and painter who lives and teaches in Boise, Idaho. His ninth collection of poems, THE MELANCHOLY OF ANATOMY, will be released in 2021 by Shearsman Books. His other recent works include THE ONGOING MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING SELF (SplitLevel Texts, 2020), ODIOUS HORIZONS (Miami University Press, 2019) and THE FOOL AND THE BEE (Shearsman Books, 2019).
Author City: BOISE, ID USA