{"product_id":"lossless-9781552454794","title":"Lossless","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, \u003ci\u003e Lossless\u003c\/i\u003e transmits through time and space those 'stabs of self' that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe qualities of light, colour, and movement in the book's forty-eight sonnets conjure a sense of arrested time, of motes in the air, while chapters of Borgesian prose poems extract knowledge from information to reconstruct a subjectivity, a personality, and a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tierney tracks and backtracks in the realm of dispossession like a cross between a physicist and a magician from a future era. These poems are new forms for human heart and quiddity.\" -\u003cb\u003e Anne-Marie Turza, author of \u003ci\u003eFugue with Bedbug\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this wise, wonky, poignant avowal of error and losslessness, Matthew Tierney geotags his 'freefall of associative memory, ' where the past flickers presently and futures bend toward the start. Invoking the dogmas of digital media, quantum mechanics and philosophy, Lossless is the devlog of a child becoming father of the man. A 'greybeard \u0026amp; tweener' at once, Tierney conjures his Gen Xer youth--neighborhood bullies, the first kiss, jogging with a Walkman on--to tweak his hi-fi output as a husband and fumbling dad. Given a spacetime continuum offering 'viaducts of alternate choices, ' in which everyone, at the molecular level, is 'swappable soma' at best, Tierney parses 'compossible paths' from 'incompatibilism, ' trying to track the quirks and quarks of multidimensional life. In troubleshot sonnets and corrupted prose, this book is an ode to the lost art of losing gracefully.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndrew Zawacki, author of \u003ci\u003eUnsun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Tierney is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent, \u003ci\u003eMidday at the Super-Kamiokande\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for a ReLit Award. He won the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and is also a recipient of the K. M. Hunter Award and the P.K. Page Founders' Award. He works for U of T as a writer in the Faculty of Applied Science \u0026amp; Engineering and lives in the east end of Toronto with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522806583570,"sku":"9781552454794","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e816352a-2539-42c0-98af-2fd433266fe4.jpg?v=1731124436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lossless-9781552454794","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}