Synopsis "Object States (in English)"
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 Shūji, 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 FISCHER Jane 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
