{"product_id":"decay-studies-us-edition-9781989305201","title":"Decay Studies U.S. Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeefahrt's poems are in fact more than poems, they instigate a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elanguage-based laboratory, a way of being close to poiesis-in-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprocess, giving witness to something like private loss of energy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einside a ritual, or radioactive decay within the poetic artefact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sean Borodale, author of Bee Journal and Inmates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Strand's famous speaker declares itself 'the absence of field, '\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeefahrt's insists itself, not through a preponderance of self-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereflection, but through an almost monastic attention to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexternal world. Decay Studies models for us a practice of looking so\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclosely that edges, wounds, holes, absences, and 'nothings' provide a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eground for full being where the ablative is a path to the good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Meghan Maguire Dahn, author of Domain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf to read Arthur Seefahrt's acutely perceptive Decay Studies feels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elike an act of close looking, then the inverse is no less true-the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eact of looking at these poems is presented as a form of close, even\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworshipful, reading. With an investigator's exactitude, Seefahrt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epores over the objects of this world as they appear and interact in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea series of environments, almost as if to solve the mystery of their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing there, if not the mystery of being itself. Formally inventive, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escrupulously executed, and in a language that spans with ease the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eintricately figurative and the profoundly mystical, Decay Studies is a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebreathtaking debut, and one whose ostensible focus might be decay, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut whose achievement is decay's opposite-preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​​​​​​​​​​ -Timothy Donnelly, author of Chariot and The Problem of the Many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Six Gallery Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662060523794,"sku":"9781989305201","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c729ec73-aa68-43ac-9d53-0d67d1111cb0.jpg?v=1733511075","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/decay-studies-us-edition-9781989305201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}