As If

By E.D. Blodgett

as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into the next to form a continuous cycle, a continued breath. The delicate syntax of each piece pushes one forward, ever forward. The poems are Dantesque, leading the traveller through a deeper, darker world. As a collection, as if constitutes an ars poetica of Blodgett's Apostrophes series. The poems explore the elements that make up the series-strict metrical patterns, the possibilities of breath, the endlessness and seamlessness of the spoken word, the incantation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888647271
• ISBN13: 9780888647276
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up