Object States

The poet cites the following works as inspiration:

Franz Kafka, The Trial, Diaries 1910-1923

Rainier Maria Rilke, Rodin

Paul Ricoeur, On Interpretation

Martin Heidegger, Country Path Conversations

Giorgio Agamben, Nudities

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Terayama Shūji, The Labyrinth and The Dead Sea: My Theatre

Yoshikuni Igarashi, Bodies of Memory

Maeda Ai, Text and the City

E.M. Cioran, Drawn and Quartered

Marjorie Perloff, The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Fredric Jameson, The Hegel Variations

Tilman Osterwold & Thomas Knubben, Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

Hijikata Tatsumi, Yameru Mai-hime

Yoshioka Minoru, Umayahashi Nikki

Kobayashi 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