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- 000 01510cam a2200253 a 4500
- 008 100419s2010 nyu b 000 p eng
- 020 __ |a 9780811218795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 020 __ |a 0811218791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 035 __ |a (OCoLC)ocn601102737
- 040 __ |a DLC |c DLC |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d C#P |d BWX |d CDX |d NTE |d INU |d DLC
- 050 00 |a PS3573.A4234 |b D75 2010
- 100 1_ |a Waldrop, Rosmarie.
- 245 10 |a Driven to abstraction / |c Rosmarie Waldrop.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b New Directions, |c 2010.
- 300 __ |a 133 p. ; |c 23 cm.
- 500 __ |a "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1190)"--T.p. verso.
- 520 __ |a Driven to Abstraction is Rosmarie Waldrop's sixth collection of poetry with New Directions. The first of its two sections, "Sway-Backed Powerlines," consists of five sequences of lyrical prose poems whose subject matter ranges from voyages of discovery and the U.S. invasion of Iraq to geometry, memories of her father, and the music of John Cage. Part two, the title sequence, explores the ways abstraction has shaped the West, beginning with the Renaissance when zero was introduced in arithmetic, the vanishing point in perspective, and imagery money in economics. These poems are among Waldrop's most engaging and thrilling to date, the lines of a master poet shaping philosophy as poetry and poetry as philosophy. --Book Jacket.