A Net of Momentary Sapphire offers three closely related poetic sequences, random rearrangements of a poignant but obsessively recurrent source text
streams of consciousness in which no stable self can be elucidated. A broken long poem, this singular net is an interrogation of the aftermath of twentieth-century modernism, looking both backwards and forwards
an eternal return.
Once again & innumerable times again
the required solitude, renunciation, strange
curtained doubt artifice all jewelled
& after this
silent time, these days
& nights in desert
dry country, dry thoughts
-from ""The foretaste of a vision but never the vision itself""
By:
R. Kolewe Imprint: Talon Books,Canada Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 184g ISBN:9781772015188 ISBN 10: 1772015180 Pages: 176 Publication Date:01 August 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
R. Kolewe has published three previous collections of poetry, Afterletters (Book*hug, 2014), Inspecting Nostalgia (Talonbooks, 2017), and The Absence of Zero (Book*hug, 2021), as well as several chapbooks. He lives in Toronto.