The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying
Brent Armendinger
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Description
Where does one body end and another begin? In The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying, Brent Armendinger explores the relationship between ethics and desire, between what is intimate and what is public. Although grounded in lyric, these poems are ever mindful of how language falls apart in us and - perhaps more importantly - how we fall apart in language. Armendinger asks, "What ratio of news and light should a poem deliver?" This book is a continuous reckoning with that question and the ways that we inhabit each other.
Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.95
Publisher
Noemi Press
Publish Date
January 01, 2015
Pages
100
Dimensions
7.2 X 7.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781934819357
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About the Author
Brent Armendinger was born in Warsaw, NY, and studied at Bard College and the University of Michigan, where he received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry. He is the author of Street Gloss (The Operating System, 2019) and The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), both of which were finalists for the California Book Award in Poetry. Brent is also the author of two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) and Archipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). His poems and translations have appeared in many journals, including Anomaly, Asymptote, Aufgabe, Bennington Review, Bloom, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Ghost Proposal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Interim, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Tinfish, Volt, and Web Conjunctions. He has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Willapa Bay AiR, Mineral School, Blue Mountain Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Community of Writers. Brent teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
"Armendinger is a master at using fragmented language with precise purpose. His poems experiment with language and form--this collection includes a poem delivered in the form of an instant messenger conversation, and a poem placed as a footnote within another poem--but never read as mere avant-garde posturing. Instead, Armendinger again and again finds new ways to use defamiliarized language to access the unsayable.It's a rare and wonderful thing to find a poet who can so powerfully, vividly, and gracefully engage with the problems of language and the world. The Ghost In Us Was Multiplying is a vital book: experimental, substantial, fragmented, unified, unsettled, and unsettling, Armendinger's work is key reading for all those who care about what our broken words can do."-- "Rain Taxi"
"In his debut collection, Armendinger attempts to reconcile his relationships with language, the world, and other people. There is a war going on and he presents poetry as a sort of life raft, or a shield; both are full of holes, but those holes present themselves as weight, as masses of meaning. He asks 'words to unlike themselves' so that we can all move freely without the baggage. But the speaker is also tentative: 'My voice sounds like salt sifted backwards into sea.'"-- "Publishers Weekly"
"In his debut collection, Armendinger attempts to reconcile his relationships with language, the world, and other people. There is a war going on and he presents poetry as a sort of life raft, or a shield; both are full of holes, but those holes present themselves as weight, as masses of meaning. He asks 'words to unlike themselves' so that we can all move freely without the baggage. But the speaker is also tentative: 'My voice sounds like salt sifted backwards into sea.'"-- "Publishers Weekly"
