Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander responds to the provocative photographs of Jack Shear. The elements are timeless and fundamental--a male nude and a piece of black linen--and the photographic results are miraculous. Within Knot are twenty-three lush black and white photographs of a body and cloth performing a provocative ballet, a wrestling match, a tense sequence of appearances and disappearances that immediately take on symbolic weight. When poet Forrest Gander first encountered these images, he asked Jack ...
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander responds to the provocative photographs of Jack Shear. The elements are timeless and fundamental--a male nude and a piece of black linen--and the photographic results are miraculous. Within Knot are twenty-three lush black and white photographs of a body and cloth performing a provocative ballet, a wrestling match, a tense sequence of appearances and disappearances that immediately take on symbolic weight. When poet Forrest Gander first encountered these images, he asked Jack Shear for more. As Gander recalls, the photographs arrived "dreamy, violent, mythic, and elemental... I set them up around the room and knew I wanted to write my way into them." The result is a profound dialogue between word and image, observation and inspiration, imagination and intellect. " What do you see? " one poem asks. "A divinity wrung from a black cloud."
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A nice clean copy, Near Fine with the publishers printed belly-wrapper (mylar protected). 7 x 9 5/8 in. 64pp., with 23 b/w photos (male nude and semi nude) by Jack Shear Black cloth with white stamped titles on spine and front board, as well as an inset photo.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 72 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very good. Boards show slight signs of wear. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. No dust jacket included with this book. This copy is the Limited Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
