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Nota

Name: Nota
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Martin Corless-Smith

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Nota is part travelogue and part philosophical examination. Corless-Smith here makes a layers of reference, of history, of text over text over text. Invented and real figures, such as that of Thomas Swan, a seventeenth-century poet and conscientious observer, watch over the Self in crisis, the self in epiphanies of clarity, pleasure, disgust, self-disgust, and inquiry; a Self whose inclusive scope admits to a history beyond the moment of simple consumption. The setting is an England in its Golden Age, a homesick construction to be consumed, with pleasure, in the discomfiting knowledge of its artificiality.

GenresPoetry

Hardcover

First published April 1, 2003