{"product_id":"lossless-9781552454794","title":"Lossless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTech-inspired sonnets and prose poems that decode a life through the experience of loss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTierney's new collection takes its title from lossless data compression algorithms. It positions the sonnet as lines of code that transmit through time and space those 'stabs of self, ' the awareness of being that intensifies with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe qualities of light, colour, and movement in the sonnets conjure a sense of arrested time, of dust motes in the air. Playing against this intimacy are loopy chapters of Borgesian prose poems - with appearances from Duns Scotus and Simone Weil, Wittgenstein, Niels Bohr and others - that extract knowledge from information to reconstruct the source experience into a subjectivity, a personality, and a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tierney tracks and backtracks in the realm of dispossession like a cross between a physicist and a magician from a future era. These poems are new forms for human heart and quiddity.\" - \u003cb\u003eAnne-Marie Turza, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFugue with Bedbug\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this wise, wonky, poignant avowal of error and losslessness, Matthew Tierney geotags his 'freefall of associative memory, ' where the past flickers presently and futures bend toward the start. Invoking the dogmas of digital media, quantum mechanics and philosophy, Lossless is the devlog of a child becoming father of the man. A 'greybeard \u0026amp; tweener' at once, Tierney conjures his Gen Xer youth--neighborhood bullies, the first kiss, jogging with a Walkman on--to tweak his hi-fi output as a husband and fumbling dad. Given a spacetime continuum offering 'viaducts of alternate choices, ' in which everyone, at the molecular level, is 'swappable soma' at best, Tierney parses 'compossible paths' from 'incompatibilism, ' trying to track the quirks and quarks of multidimensional life. In troubleshot sonnets and corrupted prose, this book is an ode to the lost art of losing gracefully.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndrew Zawacki, author of \u003ci\u003eUnsun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552454794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d","brand":"Matthew Tierney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733045805237,"sku":"9781552454794","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_527f461f-8d98-4b9c-9881-28410bf581e2.jpg?v=1710257648","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lossless-9781552454794","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}