Poetry. In the ruminative movement of these poems, Eric Selland takes the reader into a contingent, often grief-laden terrain. Here, isolation and a broken, disjointed history are shot through with moments of release, the word-on-a-thread, melody. Ever attentive to the 'condition of music', Selland here uses prose rhythms to powerful effect, piecing together the harmony suggested in paradox: 'Strike out the tongue. Enmesh the ear.' This body of work seeks coherence 'more defined by the ruptures opening in the sequential' and herein lies an uneasy beauty. The consolations by which it beckons are haunted, and haunting. -- Elizabeth Robinson

The Condition of Music

Literature & Fiction

Selland, Eric

Poetry

Sink Press

Object States

theenk Books

<p>Brushwork consists of a selection of pages from Eric Selland's recent notebooks, featuring abstract works done with calligraphic brush. Many of these pieces can stand as individual works, but they are actually part of a whole, often framing, or framed by, text written with black-ink pen, so that the notebook itself functions as a work in its own right.\nEric Selland writes: "In recent years the notebook has become the primary focus of my writing. Part of this comes from a questioning of the concept of the completed work, the 'product, ' as being more important than the process - as if writing were merely an inconvenience to be borne as a means of reaching the goal of a finished work, which is then packaged and sold. I share this concern with a number of poets who approach writing as a daily practice. Here there is less emphasis on the final product and more on process. At the same time, however, I realize that I'm moving in two different directions at once  the conceptual or ideal relationship to language and thought in the form of daily writing, and the understanding of language in its materiality, where the written word becomes an object or shape in a visual work." (From the introduction)</p>

Brushwork

Isobar Press

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