Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554831229 ISBN 13: 9781554831227

Verlag: Insomniac Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

Despite a reputation for dead seriousness, poetry has a long relationship with humour, from Catullus' complaints to Chaucer's ribald tales to Kenneth Goldsmith's appearance on e Colbert Report. Focusing on our contemporary moment, Why Poetry Sucks scrutinizes Canada's poetic avant-gardes for signs of humorous life. Moving dely between entertainment, attack, and critique, this poetry makes us laugh while making us wonder why we're laughing at all. e authors in Why Poetry Sucks draw from deep traditions in both poetry and comedy, oen challenging the rigid literary and political impasses they encounter. In our current social and cultural game of Blockado (the game of barricades), humour can act as an important sledge, taking a swing at the institutions and ideologies we might wish changed - all the while acknowledging, with bitter laughter and tongue in cheek, our apparent inability to change them.

Biografía del autor:

Ryan Fitzpatrick is a poet and critic living in Vancouver, where he is working toward his doctorate in contemporary poetics at Simon Fraser University. He is a former editor of filling Station magazine and is currently co-director (with Chris Ewart) of the Hootenanny School of Writing. He is the author of Fake Math (Snare Books, 2007) and 21st Century Monsters (Red Nettle Press, 2012).

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• Verlag: Insomniac Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1554831229
• ISBN 13: 9781554831227
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
• Herausgeber: Fitzpatrick Ryan, Ball Jonathan