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Rooted in the Modernist tradition of writers like William Carlos Williams and indebted to Canadians like bpNichol, "The Invisible World Is In Decline ...Show synopsisRooted in the Modernist tradition of writers like William Carlos Williams and indebted to Canadians like bpNichol, "The Invisible World Is In Decline" is a philosophical, erotic, and highly personal prose poem. At the same time, it takes on the Postmodern challenges of engaging concerns that extend beyond the autobiographical. Whiteman investigates spiritual crisis, love, and the struggle through language to make sense of what it is to be human in a world where the human seems to be all that is available. "The Invisible World Is In Decline" pays homage to earlier writers of both the long poem and the impersonal love lyric: Coleridge, Lautreamont, Spicer, and Zukofsky. Responsive to the everyday, the particular, and to the body, Whiteman explores the grand ways in which poetry has come to shape language and experience in the last century. The prose poem form allows for images and music to sometimes predominate over shape and sense in what poet Robert Creeley once called "a wild exultation." In the end, it moves towards a human paradise where love, thought, and language are in perfect attunement, and where poetry can say so.Hide synopsis
The Invisible World Is in Decline (ECW Press) – Trade paperback (2000)
by
Bruce Whiteman
Trade paperback, ECW Press 2000
English
102 pages
ISBN: 1550224379 ISBN-13: 9781550224375
This continuing prose poem attempts to come to terms with some of the most basic human experiences, from sex and language to the central place of light in our lives. Book V expands upon these obsessions, particularly the relationship between the body and the world and the experience of light; it adds a number of new ones as well. The failed artist is imagined as a consummate forger, expertly capable of mimicry, but wholly a fraud at any genuine work or feeling. A religious impetus, largely unstated until now, begins to be ...Show moreThis continuing prose poem attempts to come to terms with some of the most basic human experiences, from sex and language to the central place of light in our lives. Book V expands upon these obsessions, particularly the relationship between the body and the world and the experience of light; it adds a number of new ones as well. The failed artist is imagined as a consummate forger, expertly capable of mimicry, but wholly a fraud at any genuine work or feeling. A religious impetus, largely unstated until now, begins to be consecrated in this book with a series of short lyric poems concerning the redemptive qualities of love.Hide
