| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Akron series in poetry
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Akron series in poetry.
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| Summary |
"The Soft Path, which takes its title from a 1970s term promoting an alternative energy future, appraises the "unreconciled / losses" of a world remade in the relentless interests of capital, a world "revelatory in its / diminishment." Written where landscape bleeds into soundscape, where ecopoetics collides with technopoetics, this book speaks from the fragmented space of machine learning to "memory's residue," in a voice that recalls American predecessors Oppen, Niedecker, and Ammons. The Soft Path continues Harmon's exploration of both the serial poem and the long poem, from the small-but-systemic breakdowns of "Cascading Failures" to the epic commuting roadsong of the nearly 1500-line "Horizontal Dropouts." These poems offer field notes on sites ranging from interstate off-ramps to "hi-vis ribbons tied to / twig tips in the woods"; they register tenuousness and tenacity, from an era when "everything [is] / post-peak." The Soft Path reasserts Lydia Davis's judgement that "Harmon reaches deep into the resources of our rich English, renewing the language and creating from it a physical and emotional world completely his own.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2019051232
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harmon, Joshua, 1971- Soft path. Akron : The University of Akron Press, 2019 9781629221823 (DLC) 2019034380 |
| ISBN |
162922183X (electronic book) |
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9781629221847 (electronic book) |
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1629221848 (electronic book) |
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9781629221830 (electronic book) |
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9781629221823 (paperback) |
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1629221821 |
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