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    Fractal Shores: Poems
    Fractal Shores: Poems
    Fractal Shores: Poems
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    Fractal Shores: Poems

    By Diane Louie

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    Carlo Rovelli, Italian physicist, says that "the world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events." Poet Diane Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion: spinning while orbiting, actively shifting our point of view.

    More genus than hybrid species, prose poems can straddle the obvious limits and less-obvious liberties of perception. This active characteristic of spanning and connecting is especially relevant in a time of cultural polarization. Marrying, even uneasily, the inquiries of science and spiritual longing can illuminate what they—and we—have in common: a desire to understand our presence in a universe that does not yield ultimate answers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2020
    ISBN9780820357911
    Fractal Shores: Poems
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    Diane Louie

    DIANE LOUIE was born in Newfoundland and grew up in Connecticut. She earned degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop for both fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Epoch, Arts & Letters, FIELD, TriQuarterly, Cloudbank and elsewhere. She lives in Paris, France, with her partner, a research scientist.

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      Fractal Shores - Diane Louie

      The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to ensure the publication of five collections of poetry annually through five participating publishers. The Series is funded annually by Amazon Literary Partnership, the Gettinger Family Foundation, Bruce Gibney, HarperCollins Publishers, The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, Anna and Olafur Olafsson, Penguin Random House, the Poetry Foundation, Elise and Steven Trulaske, and the National Poetry Series Board of Directors.

      THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNERS OF 2019 OPEN COMPETITION

      Field Music by Alexandria Hall

      Chosen by Rosanna Warren for Ecco

      Little Big Bully by Heid Erdrich

      Chosen by Amy Gerstler for Penguin Books

      Fractal Shores by Diane Louie

      Chosen by Sherod Santos for University of Georgia Press

      Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia

      Chosen by Kazim Ali for Milkweed Editions

      An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres

      Chosen by Raquel Salas Rivera for Beacon Press

      Fractal Shores

      Fractal Shores

      Poems

      DIANE LOUIE

      © 2020 by the University of Georgia Press

      Athens, Georgia 30602

      www.ugapress.org

      All rights reserved

      Set in 11/17 Palatino

      Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc.

      The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

      Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors.

      Printed in the United States of America

      20 21 22 23 24 P 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020943251

      ISBN: 9780820357904 (pbk.: alk. paper)

      ISBN: 9780820357911 (ebook)

      CONTENTS

      BLUEBIRD

      ON BALANCE: DENIS JOSSELIN CROSSING THE SEINE

      DE SEQUANA VSLM

      VISITING GERTRUDE STEIN IN PÈRE-LACHAISE

      FLYING COLORS

      ONLY CONNECT

      EVEN IN PARIS

      SET IN MOTION

      THE MATHEMATICS OF OVER AND DONE WITH

      WHAT HAPPENED WAS THIS

      ISIS AMONG US

      POSSIBLY, WE

      TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION

      IN OUR COUNTRY

      SUNSET FROM THE WINDOW OF A RENTED SUMMER HOUSE

      VITREOUS FLOATERS

      GONE MISSING

      IN OUR YOUTH OUR HEARTS WERE TOUCHED WITH FIRE

      GIVE US THIS DAY

      SNOW ON SAGE

      THE MIND IS A CRICKET

      SUNRISE IN THE HIGH SIERRAS

      WATERING THE OCEAN

      AFTER KONGJIAN YU’S SQUARE & ROUND AT CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE

      INTERPRETATION

      LULLABY

      SAPPHO SAYS

      TALKING TO DEATH

      CONTINGENCY

      EVERY SO OFTEN

      PRAGMATIC SYNTAX

      REUNION

      THE LIFE OF DEATH

      QUANDARY

      DIALECTIC: SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

      THE LUCY SEQUENCE

      THE ONLY NU PALMS IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

      STANDING BEFORE THE DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE OF AMUN

      AWAKENING

      REFERENCE POINT

      CLARK’S NUTCRACKER

      SHAKESPEARE’S GENOME

      DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

      WHAT’S THE MATTER

      LAND’S END

      WEDDING

      ANGELS ON THE INTERNET

      IN ANY GIVEN DIRECTION

      NOTES

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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