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Abundant Life
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- Book Synopsis
- Portions, spirit, elegy, lyrics, awakenings, sutra, serendipity, loss, mindedness, rebelling, reveling, unraveling, sounderings, melody, offkey, noisily, rhythm, negation, improvisation, abandon, deflection, renewal, cascade, cadence, grace, weaving, enigma, shekinah: a door, a jar. These are a few of his favorite things. - Charles Bernstein Hank Lazer' s Abundant Life: New and Selected Poems shows how Lazer thinks with and through writing. All of it is literally experimental in that each new project is a challenge he gives himself, a way to experience life differently. Here we have his " shape writing" but also short, jagged lyrics reminiscent of Creeley, and long narrative poems about losing one' s parents. What unites this work is Lazer' s joint commitment to mindfulness (a quest to find the sacred within the everyday) and to relationality, to dialogue. His books arise and exist in conversation with others: philosophers- such as Levinas and Merleau-Ponty- as well as Zen monks, and admired poets including Emily Dickinson and Creeley. This work may be heady, but it is also deeply human. - Rae Armantrout
- About The Author
- Hank Lazer , PhD (Author), Tuscaloosa, Alabama (United States of America) - Hank Lazer has published thirty-five books of poetry, including his most recent, As We Vanish from Public View (7 Points Press) and field recordings of mind in morning (with 15 music-poetry tracks with Holland Hopson on banjo - available on YouTube). Along with Abundant Life: New & Selected Poems, Lazer has published a companion volume of essays, poetics, and interviews: What Were You Thinking: Essays 2006- 2024 (Lavender Ink). In April 2015, Lazer was selected for the state of Alabama' s highest literary award, the Harp
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781946104571
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Chax Press, (01 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 392
- Weight
- 721.21 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 241.3 x 177.8 x 27.94 mm
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