{"id":8375,"date":"2016-02-09T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=8375"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:58:11","slug":"from-nothing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/from-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"From Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 39 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-69-7<\/p>\n

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\nWinner of the 20th Annual Julia Ward Howe Award.<\/p>\n

From Nothing<\/em><\/h1>\n

Daniel Tobin<\/h2>\n

From Nothing<\/em>, a book-length poem in sections, explores the conflicted and exemplary life of Belgian physicist and priest, Georges Lema\u00eetre, known as \u201cthe father of the Big Bang,\u201d and his life\u2019s profound implications, through what John Barth called the principle of metaphoric means: \u201cthe writer\u2019s investiture in as many aspects of the text as possible with emblematic significance.\u201d\u00a0 Though associative and multivalent in its orchestration, From Nothing<\/em> weaves its frequencies into a resonant whole.<\/p>\n

from \u201c(Origin),\u201d from From Nothing<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A little sand, a little soda, a little lime once used\nto embalm the dead, and out of black hole and kiln\nthe molten bubble gathers like honey on a dipper\n\nfor the blower to stretch breath into glass, the pipe\na silent horn shaping the form with its emptiness\nto be marvered and mandrelled, jacked and lathed.\n\nIn your father\u2019s factory the vessels anneal, neat rows\nof flagons, jars, mould blown, ribbed and decorated,\nevery glinted edge and pattern the fire will destroy<\/pre>\n
so the life foreseen becomes a retrospect foreknown: the char-black rolling country of the Pays Noir from which your people came\u2026<\/div>\n
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