Ghost Nets

By: John Wilkinson

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Paperback | 4 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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104 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 0.5

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Ghost Nets is the first US collection by John Wilkinson. Ranging from brief lyrics to elaborately-structured long poems, the collection displays the intense musicality, syntactical intricacy and affective power characteristic of his poetry. But the political, social and economic crises of the period in the US shape Wilkinson s writing in new ways, more vulnerable and more evidently responsive to others vulnerability."

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"Where so much poetry that claims to 'show the world as it really is' disavows the strategies that it uses to make this showing palatable to its readers, Wilkinson gains moral authority by emphasizing that exploitation of each other and the environment is, now, etched into the fabric of the world. . . . this is poetry less about discovering our lost kinship with rocks and stones and trees than acknowledging our continuing complicity in fracking and pornography and state-sanctioned torture."--Jack Belloli "Boston Review" (1/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Wilkinson's poetry is characterized by its density--a term in the aesthetic philosophy of Nelson Goodman and others that refers to the degree of referential nuance in a verbal or pictorial artifact. Photographs, for example, are potentially denser in their signifying capacity than verbal images (a picture is worth...), but Wilkinson's poems crowd the lyric frame, zooming from microscopic detail to split-screen to bird's eye--a tendency it shares with the poetry of Andrew Zawacki."--Daniel Tiffany "Boston Review" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)

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