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Complete Twentieth Century Blues

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 432 sider

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Complete Twentieth Century Blues is the definitive edition of a long network of interrelated texts that the author wrote and assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the last century. Many of the texts have appeared before, in both pamphlets and in critically acclaimed full-length volumes, but this edition has been revised throughout. It also includes a previously unpublished book-length text on the paintings of Jack B. Yeats, as well as a number of shorter pieces. All now appear in their intended order, and with their connections to other poems made apparent via an index. At the centre of the book is the sequence The Lores, written according to a strict word count and introducing the politics and poetics of 'creative linkage' demonstrated throughout. It focuses upon fascism and resistances to it. Running through the volume are the 'Empty Diaires' which offer an alternative history of the twentieth century, told through a series of female narrators. Woven between these are poems on blues music, the first Gulf War, Stalin's poems, failed utopias, the Earl of Rochester, a sci-fi elegy for the human, a translation from Horace, the ideology of Thatcherism, atheist hymns, a hilarious romp with a very rude Robinson Crusoe, homages to various other artists, and an elegy to Frank Sinatra. The hilarious Wayne Pratt spoofs find their final resting place here too. The prose-poem essay, 'The End of the Twentieth Century', brings the project to rest with a celebration of the complexity of our powers of human connection.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal432
  • Udgivelsesdato06-05-2014
  • ISBN139781844715916
  • Forlag Salt Publishing
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt573 g
  • Dybde3,7 cm
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    10 cm
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    14 cm
    21,6 cm

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