The Kindness Colder Than the Elements

By Charles Noble
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Poetry
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Ebook (Kindle) : 9781771990950, 181 pages, September 2011
Paperback : 9781926836249, 172 pages, September 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9781926836256, 181 pages, September 2011
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781926836645, 181 pages, September 2011

Description

With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of "we use language" / "language uses us," into the objectification of "mind," into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin with sentences-cum-arguments that issue from an everyman's intentions and insights, playing into and baiting the "sociality of reason." In the cut-up sentences then come the restless, accelerated themes—themes that exist only in their variations, ghosting into one another like the dusk and the dawn in a winging, distended now.