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    Light Light
    Light Light
    Light Light
    Ebook108 pages25 minutes

    Light Light

    By Julie Joosten

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    About this ebook

    Shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General's Award for Poetry

    Shortlisted for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry.

    Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of "objectivity" as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the mind's movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic to the experimental, from the narrative to the lyric, consistently exploring the way language captures the undulation of a mind's working, how that rhythm becomes the embodiment of thought, and how that embodiment forms a politics engaged with the environment and its increasing alterations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781927040959
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      Book preview

      Light Light - Julie Joosten

      BookThug

      2013

      FIRST EDITION

      copyright © Julie Joosten, 2013

      Cover image: A cyanotype of the fern Asplenium chinensis, from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853), by Anna Atkins. Interior images: Page 11: A cyanotype of Laminaria phyllitis, Page 47: A cyanotype of Delesseria hypoglossum; Page 67: A cyanotype of Gigartina Griffithsiae. All from Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions (1843-1853) by Anna Atkins.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      The production of this book was made possible through the generous assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts and The Ontario Arts Council.

      LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      Joosten, Julie, 1980-, author

      Light light / Julie Joosten.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-927040-95-9

      I. Title.

      PS8619.O68L53 2013     C811'.6     C2013-904330-6

      PRINTED IN CANADA

      About this Book

      Shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General’s Book Award for Poetry

      Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of objectivity as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the mind’s movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic to the experimental, from the narrative to the lyric, consistently exploring the way language captures the undulation of a mind’s working, how that rhythm becomes the embodiment of thought, and how that embodiment forms a politics engaged with the environment and its increasing alterations.

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      Contents

      Wind

      Ghost Species

      Wind Scene

      Wardian Case / Terrarium

      Rain

      Wind Scene

      If light stabilizing / If to receive a bee

      Once Sun

      The Cause Closest to the Body

      Wind Scene

      Sky Georgic

      Storm Front

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