A Revolutionary Calendar by Skoulding, Zoë
A Revolutionary Calendar by Skoulding, Zoë

A Revolutionary Calendar

The French Republican Calendar, in use from1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of...
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Author: Zoë Skoulding
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A Revolutionary Calendar by Skoulding, Zoë

A Revolutionary Calendar

$254.89
A Revolutionary Calendar by Skoulding, Zoë

A Revolutionary Calendar

$254.89
Author: Zoë Skoulding
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The French Republican Calendar, in use from1793 to 1805 and revived briefly during the Paris Commune of 1871, was an effort to secularise time and return symbolic power to the rural worker. The poet Fabre d' glantine renamed the months after seasons, while each day, instead of being dedicated to a saint, was dedicated to a plant, animal, mineral or agricultural tool.These names are the starting point for the poems of A Revolutionary Calendar, in which the interplay of etymologies, translations and sensory memory becomes a means of exploring solidarities between humans, objects and other species.

"With expert grace and subversive panache, Zo Skoulding has written a collection of five-line poems gathered into twelve sections of thirty poems each--a form that replicates that of the 'Republican Calendar' created in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. Each 'month' of poems uses the five-line format differently; each of the individual poems responds to a single element of the phenomenal world and all are attentive to the rounds that phenomena follow. The resulting sequence of meticulous observations and penchant forays that inform A Revolutionary Calendar maps out a temporal intersection, bringing historico-political time (linear and progressive) into conjuncture with seasonal agricultural time (cyclical and recursive). Both are revolutionary, though in different senses, and likewise Skoulding's magnificent Revolutionary Calendar is very much a book of turns and chart of changes. It is a book for every year." --Lyn Hejinian



Author: Zoë Skoulding
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 08/28/2020
Pages: 130
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781848616905

About the Author
Skoulding, Zoë: - Zoë Skoulding's previous collections include Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013) and Footnotes to Water (Seren, 2019). She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bangor University, and received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry.

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