Death Drive through Gaia Paris

By Charles Noble

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ISBN 10 1-55238-226-5
ISBN 13: 978-155238-226-4
80 pp.
4.5" x 7"

About the Book

In his latest work, Charles Noble further reins in the already tight haiku only to let loose, a “logopoeic” poetry. Poems of “splendid rigour” or riddles of wit that are solved by “lifetime” insights ñ a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognizing the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media and markets — à la Frederic Jameson. And yet, these “haikus” go straight ñ to “the shock of the naÔve”. They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotleís sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, and enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarreling couple in the bar hanging on each otherís words and insistent with “what do you mean by [a simple word]?” But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span ñ think architecture ñ and which, more radically, in the “pleated/ crossword”, “make[s]/ good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity” (p. 57), no expenses, except for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.

About the Author

Charles Noble was born in Lethbridge and raised in Nobleford. He earned his BA in English and Philosophy from the University of Alberta, and is the winner of the Writers Guild of Alberta Poetry Award (1996). Charles now divides his time between Banff and Nobleford, where he farms with his brother, Bryan, and his family.

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