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Shadow Architect |
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Emily Warn
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How is a word imbued with power? Where does it come from, and how is it created? These are the central questions of Emily Warn’s Shadow Architect, organized around the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. As she writes in her introduction: “I came to see [the Hebrew alphabet] as a code that reveals the limits and generative power of language. I would study the letters…until an experience or insight shattered their language and logic, revealing what they concealed.” Warn sees the alphabet’s power to reveal the nature of invention, and the limits of language and knowledge. Within the set boundaries of this alphabet, Warn generates a rich polyphony, uniting her own distinctly American poetics with the language of sacred texts and commentaries. The result is an alluring, postmodernist take on what language means: an architecture not only of shadows, but of “correspondences, analogies, clues/binaries, metaphors, keys.” Format: Paperback
Publication Date: October 2008
Price: $15.00
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