Styrofoam

by Evelyn Reilly

Styrofoam: In this tour de force of applied poetics, Reilly casts a "clear dome over the fake snowstorm" of human spirit, and sings the body plastic. If polymers have a destiny, as the ultimate Ideal Material, Reilly is their phenomenologist, synthesizing domains out of "the multiplicity of foam and foam s conditions," spirit s antithesis to the human comedy, and animal tragedy, of extinction. Can we avoid such an Inferno, say "goodnight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931824320
• ISBN13: 9781931824323
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"