{"id":7192,"date":"2009-04-28T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2010-06-01T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T23:13:20","slug":"wave-books-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/wave-books-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Books (Poetry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;ve pretty much forgotten all about poetry since leaving college and its various literature courses, but these few books have reminded me just how lovely a small collection of musings can be. I won&#8217;t even begin to dissect or analyze any of them, because I&#8217;m certainly not qualified, but I will say I enjoyed looking through each of them. Also, be sure to check out Wave Books&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/erasures\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">erasure site<\/a> (in relation to <em>A Little White Shadow<\/em>, see below), where you can create your own erasures. It&#8217;s sort of fun.<\/p>\n<p>shown left to right: <br \/>\n<em>New Exercises<\/em> by Franck Andre Jamme, Translated by Charles Borkhuis, $14.00,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/catalog\/67-new-exercises\" target=\"_blank\">Buy it here.<\/a>*<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like tiny poetic word searches, these small poems reveal themselves as tightly-packed aphorisms, asserting themselves physically in the world with a wisdom that is somehow simultaneously novel and ancient. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Poemland<\/em> by Chelsey Minnis, $14.00-$30.00, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/catalog\/70-poemland\" target=\"_blank\">Buy it here.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular and the outrageous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>A Little White Shadow<\/em> by Mary Ruefle, $12.00-$30.00, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/catalog\/47-a-little-white-shadow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle&#8217;s ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*See also the limited edition box set of twelve silk-screened broadsides from New Exercises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/catalog\/74-new-exercises-broadside-box-set?page=2&amp;by=title\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> (I&#8217;m tempted to frame them).<br \/>\n<font style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">[posted by katie]<\/font><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much forgotten all about poetry since leaving college and its various literature courses, but these few books have reminded me just how lovely a small collection of musings can be. 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