{"product_id":"9781552382264","title":"Death Drive Through Gaia Paris","description":"\"Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience.… Death Drive marks a counter-turn in the work of one of Southern Alberta's most distinctive writers.\" - Chris Jennings, Department of English, University of Ottawa\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form - haiku - only to let loose a \"logopoeic\" poetry. He presents poems of extraordinary rigour and riddles of wit that are solved by \"lifetime\" insights - a dialectical poetry that still observes a phenomenological toehold but transcends the limits of locality in recognizing the curled-up-but-everywhere world of media and markets - à la Fredric Jameson. And yet, these \"haikus\" go straight - to \"the shock of the naïve.\" They turn to a middle ground, in Aristotle's sense of difficult target. They point to human acts, human reactions, and enact, themselves, a meta-linguistic wrestling, at one with the quarreling couple in the bar hanging on each other's words and insistent with \"what do you mean by [a simple word]?\" But they are also implicated in what he calls the death drive (not death wish), which arcs freely over a human life span - think architecture - and which, more radically, in the \"pleated\/ crossword,\" \"make[s]\/ good\/\/ a\/ bit\/ of\/ bad\/ infinity,\" no expenses, save for that toehold, earth, as he would have it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049998205168,"sku":"9781552382264","price":16.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552382264_p0.jpg?v=1763751565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552382264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}