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An Open Parenthesis

An Open Parenthesis


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Like Philip Rowland's previous Isobar collection, Something Other Than Other (2016), An Open Parenthesis gathers short poems into meticulously arranged sequences. Although the book is striking in its minimalism, it is not programmatically so: rather, it flexibly interweaves themes of city life, parenthood and poetics through a series of nine sections that can in the end be read as one long, book-length work. While drawing on the poet's notable engagement with the haiku tradition, this collection moves into new areas and - as the title suggests - into a new openness and open-endedness.

About the Author :
Originally from London, Philip Rowland has lived in Tokyo for many years. In addition to Before Music (Red Moon Press, 2012), his books include Something Other Than Other (2016) and NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (2019), both from Isobar Press. He has published widely on short-form poetry and poetics and is the founding editor of NOON: journal of the short poem; he is also co-editor, with Jim Kacian and Allan Burns, of the anthology Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Norton, 2013).

Review :
Few poets writing now, or even ever, get so much out of so little. Every word is weighed and placed, each poem an experience on the page and in the mind, immediately resonant, clear of clutter, looking outwards, hearing inwards. And what do we get out of it? Real and yet never forced or overdetermined insight. Poems of parenthood. The urban observation Charles Reznikoff would have written had he travelled the Tokyo public transport system rather than New York's. And it's not all just the concrete and minimal - the abstract and expansive have their place too. It's hard to keep up with everything that's worthwhile in the world of poetry, but An Open Parenthesis is a book you really should get hold of. - Alistair Noon An Open Parenthesis is a masterful book. I cannot think of when I last read anything so compelling. Zukofsky and Corman would admire his faithfulness to every word, his clean lines, and his discreet narrative of love and family. - John Martone Philip Rowland's minimalist lines in An Open Parenthesis are still, close to subdued light & silence - 'pausing to listen where the picture used to be'. There is an unusually strong sense of attentiveness, with composition registering the breath, such that 'the wait becomes / the destination'. - Peter Hughes


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9784907359409
  • Publisher: Isobar Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Isobar Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 4907359403
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr


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