Writing on texts by authors as varied as Gertrude Stein, Niels Bohr, and Mother Goose, Joan Retallack’ s book Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’ d/ disrupts the world of statements with worlds of inquiry. Each poem is an ecologically modeled operation powered by a quasi-systematic principle that is open and ever-changing. "In such a landscape there is no closure; these poems are sites for response, investigation, contemplation and delight." – Jena Osman
- ISBN10 1931824398
- ISBN13 9781931824392
- Publish Date 1 March 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Roof Books,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 120
- Language English