Distinguished Office of Echoes by Olstein, Lisa

Distinguished Office of Echoes

From renderings of sea creatures to maps of ancient battles, Olstein's latest collection engages the archive, transforming...
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Author: Lisa Olstein
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Distinguished Office of Echoes by Olstein, Lisa

Distinguished Office of Echoes

$44.44

Distinguished Office of Echoes

$44.44
Author: Lisa Olstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From renderings of sea creatures to maps of ancient battles, Olstein's latest collection engages the archive, transforming what it reveals about the body, language, and time.

A collection of three collage-, cutout, and erasure-based poems, Distinguished Office of Echoes leans into the intersection of word and image, exploring the revelatory language they make together. Each sequence uses an antique reference book as its source text: an 1865 study of marine invertebrates becomes an exploration of physical death and the disorientation of sudden loss; an 1865 proto-medical textbook journeys into the eerie dislocations of illness; and a 1905 primer on ancient Greek history investigates human and geologic time, time of war versus the time of rivers. Olstein brings a combination of reverence and irreverence, wit and tenderness to these archival texts--their taxonomies and lexicons, assumptions and elisions--casting a feminist gaze on outdated histories while discovering new intimacies in their midst. Charged with the magnetic pull of material fascination, each poem enters into and reinvents the realm of its source, undertaking a practice of excavation, collaboration, and transformation to reimagine the field of the page while reconsidering what it means to examine and to be examined.

Author: Lisa Olstein
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 09/23/2025
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781556597237

About the Author

Lisa Olstein is the author of six poetry collections and two books of nonfiction. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Hayden Carruth Award, and Writers League of Texas Award. She is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.


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