{"product_id":"lunic-panzemes-9781304275639","title":"Lunic Panzemes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jim Leftwich\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of readings of readings. It is not analysis, it is not a critical discussion, it is not the application of a theory or ideology to texts, but a record of the conscious\/unconscious experiences of reading and engaging with that reading. It is an approach I have advocated for decades: that to \"understand\" a text, especially one that seems strange or unusual, the best approach is to pay attention to one's own reactions - somatic, linguistic, visual, etc. - and then to discuss and think about those reactions. Leftwich, in his many volumes and articles about new literatures, has developed this approach better than anyone I know, including myself. It is perfect for the kinds of experimental and avant-garde writing Leftwich both practices and reads, a kind of writing that is opaque to current trends of literary analysis. It is both a guide for potential readers, and an act of love and empathy toward the texts and toward the art of writing and reading them. As he says in a conversation about my chapbook \"shat on a tool\", \"Finding meaning isn't a matter of translating the poem into prose, it's a matter of paying attention to what the poet is doing with the language\". - John M. Bennett Leftwich's \"magnetic nerve valve of gravity,\" his \"cluster of dendrites thinking spacetime\" dismantles atoms' going-once-again-and-again \"cluster of observa\" to molecular rewriting's \"pulsing shifters\" for rerouting peptide sequences and reversing rivers, recombining a day's word orders per moments' quantum entanglements, \"counting the syllables one more time.\" Whether by \"glitched letterforms\" or \"paragraph iron,\" or whether it's by Leftwich \"anvil[ing] at least a few of his popcorn brutal,\" LUNIC PANZEMES revives the memor[ies] of \"unread conferences of songbirds. - John Crouse\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46374954270871,"sku":"9781304275639","price":1615.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781304275639.webp?v=1768742256","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lunic-panzemes-9781304275639","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}