Borage Blue by Oliver Southall (English) Paperback Book

Description: Borage Blue by Oliver Southall Borage Blue is a collection of prose and verse meditations on nature and sensation. Exploring the foliar logic of plant galls, the many shapes of pollen and saprophytic fungi, the sensoria of bees and the affective textures of language, these patient, contemplative poems propose surprising and unfamiliar forms of ecological awareness. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Borage Blue is a collection of prose and verse meditations on nature and sensation which includes the experimental text On Borage: Notes for an Impossible Poem. Occasioned by eclectic observations of the medicinal and culinary herb Borage (Borago officinalis), and taking tangents through ancient philosophical accounts of touch, the poetic theory of Dante, and the metaphysics of Leibniz, On Borage builds carefully and obliquely towards imaginative insights on language, perception and the experience of the lived body.As well as establishing concerns - perception; language and beauty; the enigmas of living being and of being alive - which are central to the whole collection, On Borage also proposes the closed grammatical sentence as the basic unit of poetic experimentation for the poems which follow. Built around the syntax of propositional logic, the texts in the second part of Borage Blue nevertheless subvert systematic thinking by developing a serial, open and refractive structure for the exploratory play of their shared concepts and ideas.Drawing on the language of philosophy and biology and always inspired by close observation of the natural world - the foliar logic of plant galls, the many shapes of pollen and saprophytic fungi, the movement of flies and the sensoria of bees - these patient, contemplative writings reveal surprising and unfamiliar forms of ecological awareness, urging renewed attention to the wildness which is always close at hand. Author Biography Oliver Southall is a writer and teacher living in West Sussex. His poetry has appeared in Reliquiae, Blackbox Manifold, Effects, The Germ and The Clearing. He has a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and has published scholarly writing on the influence of economic thought and reality on Modernist poetic form. Long Description Borage Blue is a collection of prose and verse meditations on nature and sensation which includes the experimental text On Borage: Notes for an Impossible Poem. Occasioned by eclectic observations of the medicinal and culinary herb Borage (Borago officinalis), and taking tangents through ancient philosophical accounts of touch, the poetic theory of Dante, and the metaphysics of Leibniz, On Borage builds carefully and obliquely towards imaginative insights on language, perception and the experience of the lived body. As well as establishing concerns - perception; language and beauty; the enigmas of living being and of being alive - which are central to the whole collection, On Borage also proposes the closed grammatical sentence as the basic unit of poetic experimentation for the poems which follow. Built around the syntax of propositional logic, the texts in the second part of Borage Blue nevertheless subvert systematic thinking by developing a serial, open and refractive structure for the exploratory play of their shared concepts and ideas. Drawing on the language of philosophy and biology and always inspired by close observation of the natural world - the foliar logic of plant galls, the many shapes of pollen and saprophytic fungi, the movement of flies and the sensoria of bees - these patient, contemplative writings reveal surprising and unfamiliar forms of ecological awareness, urging renewed attention to the wildness which is always close at hand. Details ISBN1999971884 Pages 92 Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1999971884 ISBN-13 9781999971885 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-12-02 Imprint Xylem Books Author Oliver Southall Publisher Xylem Books UK Release Date 2019-12-02 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126531577;

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