A Symmetry: poems
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Description
Unsettling the myth of an ordered reality through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, A Symmetry considers the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancestral memory. A window washer wields an impossibly long mop in the mirrored pane of a Greek government building; strangers mesmerize us while they fold sheets into perfect corners. "Artists who design border wall prototypes are artists / who say they 'leave politics out of it.'" In meditative wanderings and compressed, enigmatic lyrics, Ari Banias probes the sometimes-touching, often-violent mundane to draw out the intimate, social proportions of our material world.
ISBN
9780393868135
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Recommended Citation
Banias, Ari, "A Symmetry: poems" (2021). All USF Faculty Authored Books. 74.
https://repository.usfca.edu/faculty_books_all/74
