Not Even This Poetry, parenthood and living uncertainly

Name: Not Even This
Author: Jack Underwood

Auteur: Jack Underwood

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Corsair

Auteur: Jack Underwood

Engels
Hardcover
9781472156082
06 mei 2021
176 pagina's

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In this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to rediscover the importance of poetry as a form of understanding and living with uncertainty

'In clear, nimble, and dexterous prose, Underwood launches a capacious quest toward the unknown and maps the limits of knowledge via artmaking's potent yet elusive role in amplifying the unknowable. All this revolves and hovers over the intimate negotiation of perhaps the deepest mystery of all: fatherhood - and with it the precarious wonder, the fraught yet ever-vital annals of parenting and love' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

'Reading Not Even This felt like waking up in a clearer, stranger and more beautiful world, with some new and holistic grasp of theoretical physics, finance and philosophy, poetry and parenthood. Every other page made me cry. Underwoord writes with such intellectual generosity and emotional precision, by turns as consoling as a hug and vertiginous as a sudden fall. It's a magical book. An incantation to be fully present, fully concerned, fully alive' Luke Kennard, author of The Answer To Everything

'[A] clever, cosmic, moving and funny parenting physics and poetry adventure . . . It's wonderful' Max Porter via Twitter

'Clear, nimble and dexterous' Ocean Vuong

'It's a magical book. An incantation to be fully present, fully concerned, fully alive' Luke Kennard

In this highly original book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how his daughter's birth at a time of great global uncertainty inspired him to rediscover with fresh urgency the importance of language as a realm of 'intimacy, overlap, hope and trust'. Poetry can uniquely offer an understanding of the world which brings its complexity within reach - yet does not seek to reduce or explain that complexity away. Poetry is a form through which we might reckon with this uncertain world, learn to inhabit our precarious life more fluently and, in turn, offer what we learn to our children.

From Joan of Arc to the unfathomable gravity of supermassive black holes, from metaphor to quantum mechanics, Not Even This is a moving, thought-provoking work, full of delights. Jack Underwood is open and attentive to the questions that the world and his daughter continue to present: thrilling, terrifying, fundamental.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 mei 2021
Aantal pagina's: 176

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Hoofdauteur: Jack Underwood
Hoofduitgeverij: Corsair

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Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 200 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 24 mm
Verpakking lengte: 200 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 260 g

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