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Highlights
- Sphinxlike is an exercise in stretching language, containing concrete poetry, Tibetan Buddhist thought, and the curated and out-of-body experience.
- Author(s): Chime Lama
- 88 Pages
- Poetry, Asian
Description
About the Book
Sphinxlike contains bilingual Tibetan and English poetry, concrete poetry and hybrid-genre poems. Full of adventurous experimentation, the collection is dynamic from start to finish.
Book Synopsis
Sphinxlike is an exercise in stretching language, containing concrete poetry, Tibetan Buddhist thought, and the curated and out-of-body experience. It offers social critique and responds to capitalism and sexism with absurdity and humor. Activating visual art, sound poetry, and performance art, its poems collide and scatter across the page in an attempt to expand through space.
Review Quotes
Chime Lama's poems are formally, visually, and tonally adventurous, funny, dizzying, grand in scope and spare as needed. I admire Lama's sense of the whole page as available, and her desire to play with every angle available to bend and space her lines, which are also often multi-lingual, and always direct, while constantly moving. Her instructions make me smile. Sphinxlike should be an open secret, passed among everyone to carry around and share and read anywhere.-Anselm Berrigan, author of Pregrets
Every page of Chime Lama's debut collection is abuzz with experimentation and playfulness. Among its many offerings are delightful words to be looked at and word-based drawings to be read. Hers are words in Tibetan script and English set free to chant and hum and prance and speak in riddles and wax poetic on these pages liberated from the grip of "English only" and the pressure to make linear sense. It's the only poetic sense imaginable.-Mónica de la Torre, author of Repetition Nineteen
This book makes me want to dance. It is not written so much as hurled. -Sparrow, author of Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .21 Inches (D)
Weight: .31 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 88
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Asian
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Chime Lama
Language: English
Street Date: January 26, 2024
TCIN: 91656894
UPC: 9798888383971
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-1759
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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