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Discover the profound beauty within 'The Beautiful Anxiety,' a groundbreaking poetry collection by acclaimed author Jill Jones. This stunning book masterfully intertwines intimate reflections with global concerns, all while navigating the complexities of life in the 21st century. From environmental issues to cultural turmoil, each poem serves as a vessel of poignant expression, rich with both materialist and speculative insights. With a unique voice that shifts between the tender and the provocative, Jill Jones captures the essence of our shared existence within an ever-changing world. Her illuminating verses explore themes of loss, memory, and the fleeting nature of life, crafting imagery that feels both real and resonant. Critics laud this collection as a breakthrough achievement, praising its exquisite lyricism and sharp linguistic intelligence. Immerse yourself in the incisive balance of sensory experience and emotive depth that 'The Beautiful Anxiety' offers. This book is not just a read, but an experience that invites you to contemplate the depths of human emotion and our connection to the universe.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW | ISBN: 9781922186430 | Year: 2014 | Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922186430
Year: 2014
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Description:
The Beautiful Anxiety continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global in an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the 21st century. The poems are in turn provocative, tender, impatient, playful, and swerve through the world, awake to its lostness as well as its 'flesh and spark'. "This is surely a break-through book. Jill Jones has compressed her lyric awareness into an exacting and low-key brilliance: alert, astute, unsentimental, and with a linguistic intelligence so sharp in its inner and outer registers I kept asking myself: how is she doing it? There is incisive balance between the sensory and the fugitive, yet her images and figures are so crisp they feel more real than so-called reality."-Philip Salom "Jill Jones' The Beautiful Anxiety, dedicated to the memory of her mother, joins elegiac witness to 'another flow'. Her sparse 'ruined lyrics' expand into 'something planetary'. Sensate poesis unfolds 'genres of dust'; the ghosts of Voss, Sappho and Messaien appear. The Beautiful Anxiety dwells in the imminence of loss, its 'vast frontier' and scope.-Kate Lilley "Jill Jones' poetry attains a Newtonian clarity by occasioning objects to collide with displaced emotion, breaking new ground through the estranging effect of coupling wonder with wryness. This book is an intense celebration of that subcutaneous disturbance often only present in the most acute poetic sensibilities."-Brian Castro
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW | ISBN: 9781922186430 | Year: 2014 | Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781922186430
Year: 2014
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Description:
The Beautiful Anxiety continually breaks across boundaries of the intimate and the global in an invigorating and unsettling mix of materialist and speculative writing on the interconnectedness of life amidst the environmental and cultural turmoil of the 21st century. The poems are in turn provocative, tender, impatient, playful, and swerve through the world, awake to its lostness as well as its 'flesh and spark'. "This is surely a break-through book. Jill Jones has compressed her lyric awareness into an exacting and low-key brilliance: alert, astute, unsentimental, and with a linguistic intelligence so sharp in its inner and outer registers I kept asking myself: how is she doing it? There is incisive balance between the sensory and the fugitive, yet her images and figures are so crisp they feel more real than so-called reality."-Philip Salom "Jill Jones' The Beautiful Anxiety, dedicated to the memory of her mother, joins elegiac witness to 'another flow'. Her sparse 'ruined lyrics' expand into 'something planetary'. Sensate poesis unfolds 'genres of dust'; the ghosts of Voss, Sappho and Messaien appear. The Beautiful Anxiety dwells in the imminence of loss, its 'vast frontier' and scope.-Kate Lilley "Jill Jones' poetry attains a Newtonian clarity by occasioning objects to collide with displaced emotion, breaking new ground through the estranging effect of coupling wonder with wryness. This book is an intense celebration of that subcutaneous disturbance often only present in the most acute poetic sensibilities."-Brian Castro