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Lossless

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Lossless

Contributors:

By (Author) Matthew Tierney

ISBN:

9781552454794

Publisher:

Coach House Books

Imprint:

Coach House Books

Publication Date:

14th August 2024

Country:

Canada

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Poetry by individual poets

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

80

Dimensions:

Width 133mm, Height 209mm, Spine 7mm

Description

A science-inspired sequence that positions poems as technology

Tierneys new collection, which takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms, positions the sonnet as a piece of technology, a means of transmission through time and space such that the original experience the source, if you like can be wholly reconstructed with no loss of information.

Lossless is a sequence of spare sonnets of slant rhyme and compact syntax that conjure existential pinpoints, the stabs of self that accompany universal loss of childhood, of relationships, of faith, of people. The sequence is bridged by chapters of Borgesian prose poems with appearances from Duns Scotus and Simone Weil, Wittgenstein, and Niels Bohr that extract knowledge from information, from Virginia Woolfs moments of being, to reconstruct a subjectivity, a personality, and a life.

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