I Want Something Other Than Time (special edition)

Lewis Freedman

CONCRETE POETRY, POETRY  | $20

November 2024

Across a series of sixty-four poems, each titled with the eponymous refrain, I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self-identicality—the distance between the self and the self that recognizes the self—into the socio-political sphere as a problem of temporality, as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts, futures, presents.

This special edition includes the handwritten chapbook as well as the foldable essay insert, A NOTE ON THE HANDWRITTEN EDITION OF I WANT SOMETHING OTHER THAN TIME.

 

About the Author

Lewis Freedman is the author of Residual Synonyms for the Name of God and I Want Something Other Than Time (both from Ugly Duckling Presse) as well as many chapbooks of poetry, including Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye). In addition, he has authored several experiments on the form of the book including Solitude: The Complete Games (Troll Thread), a collaboration with Kevin Rydberg that will take several years for your computer to read, and the book within a book, Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well-Greased Press) which interleaves notebook facsimiles with poems on the practice of notebooking. He has taught creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oklahoma State University, and served as Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Carthage College.

Publication Details

Broadsheet/Newspaper, Chapbook
Hand-bound. 64 pp, 6 x 8 in
Publication Date: November 15 2024
Distribution: Asterism Books