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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://tamiu.worldcat.org/oclc/75087642 Title: A few words will do Author: Lionel Kearns Publisher: Vancouver : Talonbooks, ©2007. ISBN/ISSN: 0889225583 : 9780889225589 OCLC:75087642

  
  

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A few words will do

Author:	Lionel Kearns
Publisher:	Vancouver : Talonbooks, ©2007.
Edition/Format:	Book : Poetry : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"These brief but concentrated pieces of literary work seem at first simple in their approach and straightforward in their intent: designed to be read easily and then to be carried away in our memories. As if they were ours. But when one person writes "this is what happened, this is what I remember, this is what I saw, this is what I know," any reader stands in for and thereby becomes the absent "I" or "eye" of that written text. The deconstruction of this inescapable process of language, metaphor, is what preoccupies Lionel Kearns in A Few Words Will Do." "There is a materiality to the world over which the greatest abstraction cannot triumph, Kearns proposes here: all abstraction seeks to arrest time; all sentiment seeks to reverse it."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more...