{"product_id":"lossless-paperback","title":"Lossless - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Tierney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003e Anne-Marie Turza, author of \u003ci\u003eFugue with Bedbug\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Tierney is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent, \u003ci\u003eMidday at the Super-Kamiokande\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for a ReLit Award. He won the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and is also a recipient of the K. M. Hunter Award and the P.K. Page Founders' Award. He works for U of T as a writer in the Faculty of Applied Science \u0026amp; Engineering and lives in the east end of Toronto with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41731876880519,"sku":"9781552454794","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/85c36fc37f53adbd4c9882cd893c331c.webp?v=1734092259","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/lossless-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}