Author : Laynie Browne
Release : 2005
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Drawing of a Swan Before Memory by : Laynie Browne
Download or read book Drawing of a Swan Before Memory written by Laynie Browne. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of “you” and “I” have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of poetry, Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. In a series of elegant prose poems, Browne guides the reader through the intricate development of human perception, where the haunting vastness of childhood slowly gives way to the defining features of adult cognition. Subtly nuanced verse constructs a world of color before sight and utterance before language--all the while aware that, ironically, language itself makes this ethereal world possible.