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The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie
The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie
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The Watchmaker Series celebrates and inquires into time as a biproduct of consciousness and practices the application of this notion in poetry. The series begins with the numeral poems, all of which relate directly to the theoretical and polemical aspects. Along the way, other poems with individual titles are interspersed to reflect or redirect the abstract considerations to more concrete subjects. Gradually, as the series progresses, the interacting and recurring associations meld theory and practice into a compositional whole.
The central notion that contemporary poetry is not a machine made of words but rather, like the watch that gives itself …