Sun Cycle

Winner of the 2018 CSU Poetry Center First Book Competition, Selected by CA Conrad. Written from inside its own formal conundrum, Sun Cycle deals with representation, value, power, gender and the aesthetic. Influenced by 80's film theory updated for 24-hour access screen time, it is obsessed with images and is named for the star that makes vision possible. These poems shift deftly from treatise to entreaty, casting form and finance as corollary particulates in the air surrounding art-making. Selcer's work creates a complicated critique of appearance and visuality, claiming: "You are carefully surviving what needs to be destroyed. I need you to language otherwise."

About the author

Anne Lesley Selcer is the author of the essay collection Blank Sign Book and from A Book of Poems on Beauty, winner of the Gazing Grain Press Award. Their writing on art includes Banlieusard, a book-length text for Artspeak, as well as essays for museum and gallery catalogs and art magazines. Writing occasionally manifests as moving image or sound.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Lesley Selcer
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2019
• EAN: 9780914946090
• ISBN: 978-0-914946-09-0
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 201 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art