{"product_id":"unfinishing-9780228011491","title":"unfinishing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eA kaleidoscopic dream book of poems that explore the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time, memory, forgetting, oblivion, fortune telling, and timelessness, with imagery both striking and nuanced and language rich and strange. It asks how the future can exist in the now, the now in the past, and who we might have been and who we might yet be. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 120 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15 April 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time – memory, forgetting, oblivion, fortune telling, eternal (or not) returns, timelessness (however that may manifest), beginnings and endings (if indeed there are such things), and other spectral speculations where the intimate and the outward might exchange places. With imagery both striking and nuanced, and language rich and strange, Brian Henderson encounters a hummingbird, a barred owl, a flood, a trapdoor, a table of contents, an empty rowboat, a nonexistent river, a room made of crystal, a heap of broken furniture, an ecocatastrophe, and a political debacle in mesmerizing poems that celebrate the strange and vertiginous musics of a kind of memory-ness invoked by the irretrievable. These poems ask how the future can exist in the now, the now in the past. What is a future? How might we recognize one? And although the now may be completely empty, what are the selves we seem to become? In the archeology of now, unfinishing asks who we might have been – and who we might yet be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time – memory, forgetting, oblivion, fortune telling, eternal (or not) returns, timelessness (however that may manifest), beginnings and endings (if indeed there are such things), and other spectral speculations where the intimate and the outward might exchange places. With imagery both striking and nuanced, and language rich and strange, Brian Henderson encounters a hummingbird, a barred owl, a flood, a trapdoor, a table of contents, an empty rowboat, a nonexistent river, a room made of crystal, a heap of broken furniture, an ecocatastrophe, and a political debacle in mesmerizing poems that celebrate the strange and vertiginous musics of a kind of memory-ness invoked by the irretrievable. These poems ask how the future can exist in the now, the now in the past. What is a future? How might we recognize one? And although the now may be completely empty, what are the selves we seem to become? In the archeology of now, unfinishing asks who we might have been – and who we might yet be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 191 x 127 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780228011491\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Henderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44099676406010,"sku":"9780228011491","price":13.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_bbaf5c9d-f042-4b1d-b49b-eb6400b40c7a.jpg?v=1654013557","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/unfinishing-9780228011491","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}