Bøger af Jena Osman
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158,95 kr. Poetry. This is the third full-length book of poetry from Jena Osman, following her highly praised work The Character, published by Beacon Press. Osman teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Temple University in Philadelphia and co-edits the literary arts journal CHAIN with Juliana Spahr. Unimaginable is a word I think of a lot when reading Jena Osman's poetry. Rather like the optical illusion of the face/vase silhoutte, Osman's work proceeds exactly through this process of making the unimaginable obvious, forcing us to rethink the entire project of the poem--and our lives--from the ground up--Ron Silliman.
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- 158,95 kr.
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358,95 kr. Osman's writing reinvents poetry as an instrument for dissecting vision, language and powerThis extensive collection of poet Jena Osman's acclaimed work spans more than 30 years, gathering poems from journals and books long out of print. Her poetry traces overlooked visual and linguistic incidents across centuries of American history, transforming "official" language--from Supreme Court opinions to the chatter of Predator drone pilots--into writing that is comic, chilling and relentlessly inventive.Jena Osman's (born 1963) books include Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), The Network (Fence Books, 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004) and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize). She lives in Philadelphia.
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163,95 kr. "Jena Osman's new poetry collection Motion Studies ... consists of three essay-poems that begin as meditations on 19th century science and end firmly as research into the present. From chronophotography to algorithmic surveillance, from phrenology to fMRI brain scans, from Victorian specimen collections to the bleached bones of the Great Barrier Re
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- 163,95 kr.