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The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.



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"Kolewe enacts a curious, seemingly imperceptible talent for rendering nostalgia party to a mode of true grace, not the flatly sentimental, but instead this work invokes the cool gravity of viewing one's self-but-not seated alone in a quiet room, seemingly suspended forever in a discrete moment of space-time." -- Liz Howard, Griffin Poetry Prize winning author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

The Absence of Zero

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      Publisher Book*hug
      Published 9 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781771667265
      978-1771667265
      ISBN-10 1771667265

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.



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      "Kolewe enacts a curious, seemingly imperceptible talent for rendering nostalgia party to a mode of true grace, not the flatly sentimental, but instead this work invokes the cool gravity of viewing one's self-but-not seated alone in a quiet room, seemingly suspended forever in a discrete moment of space-time." -- Liz Howard, Griffin Poetry Prize winning author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

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