Nothing Is for Everyone
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Ayin Press
Published:24th Oct '24
£12.99
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A wise and energizing book of poems suffused with music, mysticism, tenderness, and wit.
Eden Pearlstein’s Nothing Is for Everyone is a manifesto of the unmanifest. Deeply, devotedly hybrid in influence and expression, this wild collection of poetry draws on rabbinic linguistics and kabbalistic meditation, free jazz and hip-hop, Marcel Duchamp and the Magid of Mezritch—all to reveal the permutational quality of language itself: its instability, resistance to containment, and divine fault lines. In these times when answers are plentiful and questions impoverished, Pearlstein’s insistence on the materiality of nothingness reveals that in fact nothing really matters.
Nothing Is for Everyone was published by Deuteronomy Press and is distributed by Ayin Press (via Publishers Group West).
“With a post-bop-and-beat eloquence and a disarming, instructive largesse, Eden Pearlstein sings us toward that ‘tunnel / at the end / of the light’ through the nothing that’s everything for those who can hear it. This is a wise and energizing debut collection.”
—Peter Cole, author of Draw Me After: Poems
“Eden Pearlstein's wonderful Nothing Is for Everyone lives up to its provocative title. You could read it as the answer to a Buddhist koan or as a surrealist sales pitch, you could read it with a sigh, or with laughter and applause. What is nothing? Who is everyone? Pearlstein's images and poems walk lightly on the earth, in the company of ‘memory and myth, ritual and art,’ dancing and touching home again and again, gently urging us all: ‘For God's sake / make things / more beautiful
ISBN: 9781959586029
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80 pages