{"product_id":"words-apart-and-others-jonas-mekas-poems-1967-1998","title":"Words Apart and Others : Jonas Mekas Poems 1967-1998","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor(s)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Jonas Mekas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFormat\u003cstrong\u003e softcover book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eYear\u003cstrong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eLanguage(s)\u003cstrong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePages\u003cstrong\u003e 88 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher\u003cstrong\u003e Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eTranslated from the Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis. Words Apart and Others presents for the first time to English-speaking audiences poems spanning three decades of Jonas Mekas's career (1967-1998). The book opens with a timely and insightful preface by poet Anne Waldman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: start; ; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\"In his poems, legendary filmmaker and artist Jonas Mekas undertakes a Dantean journey through the circles surrounding the self. And like Dante, instead of seeing horizontally from a fixed place to the horizon, Mekas sees vertically, but from the illuminated world to the depths of experience. In addition to staging a vertiginous examination of the meaning of a life, the striking verticality of his lines functions as an auger 'that goes \/ deeper, \/ deeper \/ inside'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003eForrest Gander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Just like his films, Jonas Mekas's poems retain their dignity, their rhythm unfolding as the poet looks at mountains from an airplane. Later, he is somewhat like an actor sitting on the shore, anticipating darkness, using 'soul' in the singular, remembering his childhood and his old friends, then it's daytime, bright yellow, and he begins again. The colors are true, the experience is so real. Mekas's poems are a true delight to read, timely and refreshing like a perfect glass of water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003eEileen Myles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonas Mekas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56788952908107,"sku":"SQ0013256","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/3034\/9643\/files\/words_apart_Mekas_livre.webp?v=1773412076","url":"https:\/\/re-voir.com\/en\/products\/words-apart-and-others-jonas-mekas-poems-1967-1998","provider":"Re:Voir","version":"1.0","type":"link"}