Full Description
Bringing together poetry published during the last six years, Strange Attractors is the most recent and extensive collection by the Prague-based award winning writer Louis Armand. Armand's themes shift between New York cityscapes and the Moroccan desert; from dissections of contemporary aesthetics, philosophy and politics, to reflections on human intimacy, the sympathetic faculty and violence. Among the most prolific and widely received poets of his generation, Armand's work has been described by Miroslav Holub as luminous with verbal innovation and critical insight. As the editor firstly of the Prague Revue and later of the PLR (Prague Literary Review) - Armand has participated in, and often presided over, many of the literary transformations and reformations of the decade since communism's collapse in central Europe. At the same time, Armand's work has remained strongly internationalist, eschewing the facile temptations of literary nationalism This volume confirms Armand's standing as a major figure of the Prague renaissance and the post-fin-de-siècle of English-language poetry internationally.
Contents
the geometry lesson
some heliotropes
the geometry lesson
incarnedine
dimensions variable
psychology with nude & mondrian
monument to v. tatlin
stemmata: mode d'emploi
oxygen as a socially useful substance
deriving the circumference
tenor & vehicle
alembic
verlaine at mons
school of fontainbleau
exordium
against a field sinister
alembic
personage & emblems
a perfect bride
study for a portrait, june 16
festina lente
base materialism
trailings
dimensions unknown
towards a geometry of pancreatic islets
craft morphology
footnote to the bride
cloud canyons
jeu lugubre
meat sciences (appliqeé)
threshole
concetto spaziale
homage to linnaeus: systema naturae
hortus conclusus
anatomy lessons
tendances morbides
hortus conclusus
rigid designators
factotum
rigid designators
for the duration
jacques cousteau est mort
panopticon
denfert rochereau
serial noir
observations towards an epitaph
porte-jaretelles
scopolamine
chambre noire
symptomologies
prelude to an expedition
incessant acts
parthenogenesis
omitting the weather
plat du jour
documentary
an alphabetum for a.z.
october
prière de toucher
avant-propos
personal appliance
une femme de trente ans
lazarus
abject relations
two figures
sleeping positions
