Transmission loss /Chelsea Jennings.
Jennings, Chelsea,
Transmission loss /Chelsea Jennings. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vi, 64 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the study of sound waves and optics, the term 'transmission loss' refers to how a signal grows weaker as it travels across distance and between objects. In this book, Chelsea Jennings reimagines the term in poems that register attenuated signals, mark presence and loss, and treat the body as an instrument sensitive to the weather of immediate experience. Threading together landscapes, abstract paintings, family heirlooms, maps, manuscripts, and photographs, these poems follow the seasons and traverse the spectrum of visible light. Vivid and precise, Transmission Loss brings us to the boundary between inside and outside, 'As if what the hand knows /
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction.
9781613765784 9781613765791
2018032604
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3610 / .T736 2018
Transmission loss /Chelsea Jennings. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vi, 64 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the study of sound waves and optics, the term 'transmission loss' refers to how a signal grows weaker as it travels across distance and between objects. In this book, Chelsea Jennings reimagines the term in poems that register attenuated signals, mark presence and loss, and treat the body as an instrument sensitive to the weather of immediate experience. Threading together landscapes, abstract paintings, family heirlooms, maps, manuscripts, and photographs, these poems follow the seasons and traverse the spectrum of visible light. Vivid and precise, Transmission Loss brings us to the boundary between inside and outside, 'As if what the hand knows /
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction.
9781613765784 9781613765791
2018032604
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3610 / .T736 2018