Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World by Halpern, Rob

Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World

Poems of investigation, analysis and healing from poet, critic, editor and activist Rob Halpern.Rob Halpern's new sequence...
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Author: Rob Halpern
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Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World by Halpern, Rob

Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World

€34,41

Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World

€34,41
Author: Rob Halpern
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Poems of investigation, analysis and healing from poet, critic, editor and activist Rob Halpern.

Rob Halpern's new sequence of poems speaks to social, environmental, and personal crisis--from white supremacist violence and wildfires raging just north of San Francisco, to the death of his father--all of which are tempered by the joyful birth of his daughter, whose new life offers relief in the darkness. He calls the poems hieroglyphs with a tip of the hat to Marx, for whom the hieroglyphic appearance of the world translates the secret of our catastrophe. But as Halpern notes, the secret of the thing may well be that there is no secret. Here, investigation, analysis, and healing converge, as HIEROGLYPHS OF THE INVERTED WORLD tests the promise and the failure of cultural production, specifically lyric poetry, in the midst of disaster. In his afterword to the book, Halpern asks, Can the moment arrested by the poem's burnished amber show us something we don't already know about the world? And if not, what is the social function of the poem? Perhaps the question is unanswerable, but this book attempts a response.

Poetry. California Interest. LGBTQIA Studies.



Author: Rob Halpern
Publisher: Kenning Editions
Published: 11/15/2021
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781734317633

About the Author
Halpern, Rob: - Rob Halpern lives between San Francisco and Yspilanti, Michigan, where he organizes the Writers' Bloc Poetry Workshop inside Women's Huron Valley Prison, while teaching at Eastern Michigan University. His books include include HIEROGLYPHS OF THE INVERTED WORLD (Kenning Editions, 2021), WEAK LINK (Atelos, 2019), COMMON PLACE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and MUSIC FOR PORN (Nightboat Books, 2012). Together with Robin Tremblay-McGaw, he co-edited From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice (Contemporary Practice), which was listed among Entropy's Best Non-Fiction books of 2017. Halpern's critical and lyrical essays appear in Mediations, Brooklyn Rail, Journal of Narrative Theory, Modernist Cultures, and Chicago Review, as well as the edited volumes Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, and Political Poetics: Poetry and Communism. He is the editor of Bruce Boone Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays (Nightboat, 2020).

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