Real

by Stephen Ratcliffe

Poetry. REAL, a long poem composed of 474 "frames" written in 474 consecutive days, continues the project Ratcliffe began in Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002): to write down/"transcribe" perception of "real things" in the world as directly as possible, as they happen, before "conceptualization/ takes over." Attuned both to the presence and all-too-soon disappearance of "things" as such ("physicist noting/the pulse of light left...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939691132
• ISBN13: 9780939691135
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Avenue B.
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 8.7"