Object States

The poet cites the following works as inspiration: Franz Kafka The Trial Diaries 1910-1923Rainier Maria Rilke RodinPaul Ricoeur On InterpretationMartin Heidegger Country Path ConversationsGiorgio Agamben NuditiesGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Phenomenology of SpiritTerayama Sh?ji The Labyrinth and The Dead Sea: My TheatreYoshikuni Igarashi Bodies of MemoryMaeda Ai Text and the CityE.M. Cioran Drawn and QuarteredMarjorie Perloff The Vienna Paradox: A MemoirFriedrich Nietzsche The Birth of TragedyFredric Jameson The Hegel VariationsTilman Osterwold & Thomas Knubben Emil Nolde: Unpainted PicturesHenri Lefebvre The Production of SpaceHijikata Tatsumi Yameru Mai-himeYoshioka Minoru Umayahashi NikkiKobayashi Toshiaki Shutai no Yukue Norman Fischer writes this about Eric Selland's OBJECT STATES: No object that isn't a state of mind or being no state of mind or being that doesn't appear as an object an event a thought a phrase. This haunting philosophical impasse and delight is the subject of Eric Selland's quietly beautiful book in which nearly every echoing sentence invites pondering. 'The poet screaming inside a fish.' 'A day which is merely a symptom.' Do you know where or who you are? -- NORMAN FISCHERJane Joritz-Nakagawa writes this about Eric Selland OBJECT STATES: Eric Selland finds 'invisible doors' in spaces we did not know existed but are pleased to meet. 'Language is a city' both east and west and at once familiar and unfamiliar in 'the absent presence of memory.' A fine work both haunting and revelatory from one of the most skillful of contemporary poets. -- JANE JORITZ-NAKAGAWA