Green Integer, paperback Publication Date: November 01, 1999 Publisher Marketing: In THEORETICAL OBJECTS American poet Nick Piombino explores -- through manifestos, talks, sayings, speeches, and autobiographical-like pieces -- form and meaning, how through the very process of writing, of speaking, meaning is made real. As in the works of Gertrude Stein, Piombino transforms thought into the poetic process by means of a conceptual metamorphosis. Associative links are tracked across the ordinary boundaries of experience, then captured as they cluster into 'theoretical objects, unique configurations of written expression crystallized beyond the frozen forms of literary obsolesence,Theories are dreams we learn to believe/ To counter empty truths/ Which leave us cold.
