Writing in the Still

by Andrew Benjamin

This haunting opening poem, which through eight sections situates its reader in the aftermath of a spectral memory, does not immediately suggest a place so much as the allusive echo of a choir of departed angels. The scene-historic in Walter Benjamin's sense of accumulated ruin-gives voice to such questions and recollections, "singing there in the instant," a still voice that patently inhabits discrete moments of silence. The seventh section, "That...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0648728250
• ISBN13: 9780648728252
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Re.Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"