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Void Studies

By Rachael Boast

Void Studies Poetry

Void Studies

By Rachael Boast

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY Void Studies, Rachel Boast's extraordinary new collection, realizes a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had proposed, but never got round to writing. Études néantes was to consist of poems written as musical études; these would not convey any direct message, but instead summon the abstract spirit of their subject. This 'impossible project' has been completed by Boast in the most astonishing way: these tone poems are indeed works of pure music - but despite their esoteric nature, are by no means 'difficult': instead they conjure the recognizable states, emotions, moods, ambiances and strange atmospheres that lend our lives meaning, and together comprise a kind of otherworldly lexicon of feeling. Void Studies is an airy and beautiful book - one in which Boast has spun a pure music to both ask and answer some of the most profound questions we can frame.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
80
Release Date:
2016-11-17
Publication Date:
2016-11-17
Publisher:
Picador
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509811451
ISBN13:
9781509811458
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
97 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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