Description
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In classical rabbinic literature the unpronounceable name of God produces and sacralizes a host of synonyms around what can't be said. RESIDUAL SYNONYMS FOR THE NAME OF GOD performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past. Lewis Freedman has heretically rewritten the work of his ancestors to create an annotated index of this inherited structure, in which our contemporary drive for total finitude profanes the infinite primarily by being indistinguishable from it.
Author Bio
Lewis Freedman is the author of RESIDUAL SYNONYMS FOR THE NAME OF GOD (Ugly Duckling Press, 2016) and I WANT SOMETHING OTHER THAN TIME (Ugly Duckling Press, 2021) as well as many chapbooks of poetry, including Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye, 2018). In addition, he has authored several experiments on the form of the book including Solitude: The Complete Games (Troll Thread, 2013), a collaboration with Kevin Rydberg that will take several years for your computer to read, and the book within a book, Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well- Greased Press, 2013) which interleaves notebook facsimiles with poems on the practice of notebooking. He has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oklahoma State University, and served as Visiting Writer- in-Residence at Carthage College.
Author City: MADISON, WI USA