Harpo Before the Opus

by Logan Fry

The poems begin where language fails, where speech becomes disembodied, and syntax skids to a stop that dissolves into gesture. Where its form reaches an end, formlessness offers a space ripe with possibility. Here we find Harpo, reaching into the frustrated endpoint of language to find a method for its resurrection. Fry sees that language becomes a tool for alienation and uses the poems in Harpo Before the Opus to excavate paths back to tenderness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632430746
• ISBN13: 9781632430748
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"