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Finger and Thumb

Finger and Thumb 
Author(s)  
Publisher  Salt Publishing
Publication year  2004
Language  en
Edition  1
Page amount  128 pages
Category  Poetry
Price  13,20 €

     ISBN 184471229X
 
 
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Finger and Thumb strives to create rhythm on paper. It is a movement of language itself, for the sake of rhythm and numbers. Branching out from the phenomenon of "slam" poetry, the poems in attempt to keep linguistic integrity, while bringing a percussive element to the text. The subjects roam from landscape, to body image, to family life to, of course music, each playing with concepts of tonality in language, of innate music within the vocabulary. There is a certain life given to the work. Everything is made human, as if making things human makes them more describable, more understandable, not only in the text but in their relationship to the author. It is a politically charged work that addresses issues of development, race, and gender in America. A large part of is about getting to pulse that lies in everything, the core of each item. Within that pulse is a beat which the language constantly addresses. A language that is moving and pulsing itself. Ultimately, is about movement within the moment. The movement of language against itself, and the movement of one's thoughts within one stream. It is an attempt to document the natural contradiction we are to stagnancy, and the rhythms that we all share.
 
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