{"title":"Jeffrey Pethybridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our curated collection of works by \u003cem\u003eJeffrey Pethybridge\u003c\/em\u003e, a dynamic voice in the realms of contemporary poetry and essay writing. Known for his evocative and intricate explorations of the human condition, Pethybridge's works are a thrilling journey through the arts and culture landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePethybridge's style is characterised by its lyrical depth and intellectual rigor, making his books a stimulating addition to any reader's collection. His work, \u003cem\u003eForce Drift: An Essay in the Epic - Deluxe Edition\u003c\/em\u003e, exemplifies his ability to weave complex narrative structures with philosophical musings, crafting a unique blend of poetic and critical exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're a seasoned reader of poetry or new to the genre, Jeffrey Pethybridge's works offer a captivating insight into the world of literary arts, presenting themes that are both universal and deeply personal. Delve into these pages and discover the transformative power of words as envisioned by one of today's most compelling voices.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"force-drift-an-essay-in-the-epic-deluxe-edition-by-jeffrey-pethybridge-9781961209350","title":"Force Drift: An Essay in the Epic - Deluxe Edition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eForce Drift\u003c\/em\u003e recall Gilles Deleuze's insight that art \"is not a matter of reproducing or inventing forms, but of capturing forces.\" Through the formal range of this dynamic sequence, Pethybridge achieves something like a synthesis of Deleuze's opposition whereby the invention of poetic form becomes the very means of capturing, registering forces: \"a reckoning lyric.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe task of reckoning renders visible the violence of the state that lies at the heart of the matter precisely because the state intends to conceal or justify its brutality through the invocation of emergency powers, as well as the state of exception, or how the state disappears persons in its network of black site prisons. As the political scientist Darius Rejali has demonstrated, it is in fact democracies that have refined \"invisible tortures\" such as sensory deprivation, stress-positions, and the waterboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking at the intersection of documentary poetics and theories of the epic, Pethybridge recommits poetry to a responsibility for a description of history. As a poet-researcher, he asks: \"what would be possible…if listening \/ were the leading-form of being.\" Driven by argument, abstraction, and assemblage, the poems in \u003cem\u003eForce Drift\u003c\/em\u003e address themselves to the irreparable, the \"traumaeffect,\" within the war on terror's record of atrocity. \u003cem\u003eForce Drift\u003c\/em\u003e is a cri de coeur, political critique, and essay in the epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the world-destroying violence of the US torture program, \u003cem\u003eForce Drift\u003c\/em\u003e juxtaposes a catalog of energies, forms, and genres. It is abolitionist, citational, architectural, chromatic, and replete with visual poetries ranging from the arabesques of tzahibs to erasures to extreme measures of leading and kerning. Even when its language is reduced to the pure transcription of pain—\"aiai aiai aiai\"—\u003cem\u003eForce Drift\u003c\/em\u003e is committed to aliveness and embodiment as \"final treaty of the person,\" as conscience and counterworld to the history as catastrophe of US imperialism, \"irrefutable as the sun to the eye.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851770122476,"sku":"9781961209350","price":209.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3e3e689944346ff033978cc5104c7087.jpg?v=1759131778"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jeffrey-pethybridge.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}