false 6202984 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 6202984 1 6383491 23 3 2009 Scape total:20|5:13|4:4|3:3|2:0|1:0| 20 90 46 2 636355 4.59 37 7 53116109 743279 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 5 0 false Sat Apr 18 08:07:01 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 08:07:45 -0700 2009 ]]> 60004619 2252706 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 4 0 false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 04:29:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 20:50:47 -0700 2009 81657561 1113408 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 3 0 false Mon Dec 21 10:17:03 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 10:07:19 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 10:17:03 -0800 2009 81203680 2521808 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 4 0 false Wed Dec 16 11:06:02 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 16 11:06:02 -0800 2009 79830381 2373647 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 20:45:29 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 20:45:29 -0800 2009 74246299 2299020 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Oct 12 00:46:09 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 00:46:09 -0700 2009 70222471 1085797 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 3 0 false Sat Sep 05 22:58:14 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 22:58:14 -0700 2009 68711750 1209392 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Aug 24 12:16:46 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 12:16:46 -0700 2009 68702240 45087 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Aug 24 11:09:27 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:09:27 -0700 2009 66323927 136333 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 5 0 false Sun Oct 25 18:43:29 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 12:42:36 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 18:43:28 -0700 2009 65191977 385506 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Jul 27 17:27:43 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 17:27:43 -0700 2009 63823151 2270235 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 5 0 false Thu Jul 16 22:40:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 22:40:26 -0700 2009 60647178 369699 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Jun 22 10:34:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 10:34:59 -0700 2009 60013937 202525 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 3 0 false Wed Jun 17 06:36:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 06:36:09 -0700 2009 59869398 1648639 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 4 0 false Thu Jun 25 06:17:51 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 07:09:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 06:17:52 -0700 2009 59280577 726283 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Thu Jun 11 09:58:29 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 09:58:29 -0700 2009 58074290 614271 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon Jun 01 11:21:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 11:21:50 -0700 2009 56533292 1301431 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Mon May 18 15:53:41 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 15:53:41 -0700 2009 55072980 1703225 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

]]> 2009 0 0 false Tue May 05 16:50:27 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 16:50:27 -0700 2009 55000598 912135 6202984 0977770982 9780977770984 2 <![CDATA[Scape]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516m/6202984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235082516s/6202984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202984.Scape 4.50 20 Scape, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the rural equation of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it.

Praise for Scape:

In Scape, Joshua 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: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness.
--Lydia Davis

The landscapes that Joshua Harmon explores are not static or flat but alive and mobile, constantly interrupting the viewer as if to say 'we compose this scene together, just listen!' The reader is similarly engaged to wander in Harmon's code-shifting, phoneme-blasting phrases that combine folksy Americana with an almost Hopkins-like faith in natural sacrament. Scape holds up the mirror to a nature that refuses to stand still. It is an astounding accomplishment.
--Michael Davidson

The stalk of a flower. The shaft of an insect's antenna. An architectural column. Scapes: the means to beauty, navigation, and fancy, doing all the heavy lifting without trumpets. And the escape? The landscape? And the inscape? What happens when all ancillary definitions are sounded at once? When the background becomes its opposite? This is the metaphysical, alliterative music vivifying Joshua Harmon's Scape. This is harmonious discord, which is not a paradox, but "[a] homeless cadence." Listen up: "slo-mo / pleasures shaken from troubled instruments."
--Noah Eli Gordon

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