Percussing the Thinking Jar
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Omnidawn Publishing
Published:19th Nov '24
£19.00
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A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body.
With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win’s poetry.
"Percussing the Thinking Jar is a marvel of lyric invention. The 'thought logs' make stream of consciousness feel new. Stroke log, vertigo log, anxiety meditations, wild ideas: no idea or language is out of Win’s reach. This is original, gorgeous, engrossing poetry." -- Lee Herrick, poet laureate of California and author of "Scar and Flower'
"Lately I’ve been worrying about poetic style, which is a branched variation of the poet’s perpetual subject of worry, language. Win’s Percussing the Thinking Jar took me a step away from such worrying, weighted though the poems are with worry. Here are poems in which a love of the sounds and textures of words is manifestly a determining stylistic priority, poems that, consequently, are richly musical, and feature lines that expertly play their rhythms against each other—'vesper flux, pressure switch
ISBN: 9781632431608
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 286g
180 pages