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The Irrationalist

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The Irrationalist
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â€œBuffamâ€™s often deadpan tone is like a magical dustpan that sweeps up the strangest observations and ideas, all worlds to themselves. Her â€˜Little Commentariesâ€™â€”â€˜On PiÃ±atas,â€™ â€˜On Fountains,â€™ and â€˜On Vanishing Actsâ€™ (to name only a few)â€”are absolute gems, kin to Anne Carsonâ€™s town poems and Yoko Onoâ€™s Grapefruit. Buffamâ€™s poems tug at new corners of the brain. Theyâ€™re marvelous.â€
- Matthea Harvey

â€œBuffam begins with a world that ends, a world that is always ending. This is not despair, but a shrewd mind behind an honest eye that in wry observation creates out of small poems a book of knowledge, â€˜Little Commentaries,â€™ which show there is no wisdom unsharpened by wounding wit. That motion is an essential motion, and these are essential poems.â€
- Dan Beachy-Quick

â€œThese poems try to achieve something almost impossible: not to betray the ironic today while celebrating the interiority of a serious meditation. And they succeed in doing it. What a treat!â€
- Adam Zagajewski
Country USA
Brand Brand: Canarium Books
Manufacturer Canarium Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780982237632
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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