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    Abraham
    Abraham
    Abraham
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    Abraham

    By Colin Browne

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    In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational work of great concentration and beauty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 1987
    ISBN9781771312769
    Abraham
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    Colin Browne

    Clint Burnham is widely published as a critical theorist, poet, and author of books on digital culture. He is the author of book-length studies of Steve McCaffery and Fredric Jameson, a novel titled Smoke Show (2005), and several books of poetry, including The Benjamin Sonnets (2009). His most recent critical book is The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012). His most recent art writing includes a catalogue essay on Canadian photographer Kelly Wood; an essay on Edward Burtynsky is in the forthcoming Petrocultures collection from McGill-Queens. During a residency at the Urban Subjects Collective in Vienna in 2014–15, he wrote books on Slavoj Žižek and digital culture, and on Fredric Jameson and Wolf of Wall Street. Burnham is an associate member of the SFU Department of Geography and a member of SFU’s Centre for Global Political Economy. He is a founding member of the Vancouver Lacan Salon.

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      Abraham - Colin Browne

      ABRAHAM

      The aleph on the cover is from an inscription on the sarcophagus of Eshmun'azar, King of Sidon at the end of the 5th or beginning of the 4th century B.C. Eshmun'azar's plea may be translated as follows: I am snatched away before my time, a young man, an orphan, the son of a widow, and I lie within this sarcophagus which I have built. I beseech every royal person, every man: let no one open my bed and let no one search here for treasure for there is no treasure; let no one remove this sarcophagus in which I live, or build above me a chamber for second bed.

      From H.S. Williams, The History of the Art of Writing. London: Merrill & Baker, 1902.

      Copyright © 1987 Colin Browne.

      Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Browne, Colin, 1946-

          Abraham

      Poems.

      ISBN 0-919626-33-5

      1. Abraham (Biblical patriarch) - Poetry.

      I. Title.

      PS8553.R69A72 1987    C811′.54    C87-094660-9

      PR9199.3.B764A62 1987

      Brick Books

      Box 20081

      431 Boler Road

      London, Ontario

      N6K 4G6

      Canada

      www.brickbooks.ca

      For Susanna (Rosa nutkana)

      Contents

      The Boy

      Caution, All Along (Amber)

      Developer

      Eleusis

      4 Corners

      Parallax

      The Holy Land

      My Mouth

      Jerusalem ("… umbilicus terrae")

      — Wheel of Fortune

      Links

      Mother

      Neighbour

      Onan's Ear

      Papa!

      Quoit

      Something Rose

      The Street

      Then Strength

      Urgency

      Vigia

      Who

      X

      Your Arms

      Das ist Charfreitags Zauber, Herr!

      Colin Browne, DIARY (August 1961)

      ’Abhraham

      ’Ethan Ha-’Ezrachi

      ’Amanah

      Heman

      Chebhron

      Yisra'el

      Mo'abh

      ’En Gedi

      ’En Mishpat-Qadesh

      ’Emeq Ha-Melekh—’Emeq Shaweh

      Zor, the harasser

      El-Khalil

      Father of a multitude

      "In the beginning ’Abhram had control over only two hundred and forty-three limbs of his body, equalling the numerical value of his name. The full number of a man's limbs are, however, two hundred and forty-eight. ’Abhram (=5) was given to this name. ’Abhraham thereby became a perfect man."

      David Mendel Harduf, Biblical Proper

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