We Are Nothing and So Can You (Paperback)

Jasper Bernes

ISBN 10: 193463915X / ISBN 13: 9781934639153

Verlag: Commune Editions, CA, 2015

Beschreibung

Paperback. We Are Nothing and So Can You is a book-length poem for the long 21st century to come, a poem of revolts past, present, and future. In alternating passages of rhapsodic verse and speculative prose, Bernes plots the dynamic movement of history, both irreversible and recursive, moving forward directly and by twists and turns, in sentences and lines, standing still and hurtling toward the abyss. This is an epic for an age without heroes save collective heroes, leaping from the occupied plazas and rioting cities of the aughts and teens to futures alternately desolate & full of promise. An epic of popular revolt, shuttling between the uncertain present and futures both grim and auspicious. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: We Are Nothing and So Can You (Paperback)
• Verlag: Commune Editions, CA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 193463915X
• ISBN-13: 9781934639153
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

We Are Nothing and So Can You is a book-length poem for the long 21st century to come, a poem of revolts past, present, and future. In alternating passages of rhapsodic verse and speculative prose, Bernes plots the dynamic movement of history, both irreversible and recursive, moving forward directly and by twists and turns, in sentences and lines, standing still and hurtling toward the abyss. This is an epic for an age without heroes save collective heroes, leaping from the occupied plazas and rioting cities of the aughts and teens to futures alternately desolate & full of promise.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jasper Bernes is the author of a previous collection of poems, Starsdown (2007), and is currently completing a book of literary history,The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role of poetry in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Excerpts fromWe Are Nothing and So Can You have appeared in Lana Turner, The American Reader, The Capilano Review,Hi Zero, Prelude, and elsewhere. His writing on contemporary politics and political economy can be found in venues such asThe New Inquiry, LARB, Endnotes, and Viewpoint. He lives in Berkeley with his family and teaches in the English Departments at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.