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California sweet
- Title
- California sweet / by Kent MacCarter.
- Author
- MacCarter, Kent
- Publication
- Parkville, Vic. : Five Islands Press, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1895 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 102 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "On the roofs of windowless malls and advertising conglomerates, Kent MacCarter is dancing. Shimmy, bebop, pogo, he's climbing billboards to wall-flip up high over the parking lot, its asphalt vistas, naturalising heaps of disposable packaging, target markets heading to their cars under the power grid. He's making a maelstrom up there, sucking it all in-real maraschinos, Donkey Kong, nuclear reactors, fibromyalgia, quietude, cup-a-soups. It's 'draping sparkle on the troposphere'. It's giving the republic of letters its republic back. '& it's a total fucking gas'". --Lisa Morton. "Kent MacCarter is writing like no other poet. His post SF Renaissance and post-language new lyricism are all tussling with an Australian sense of edges. Transcultural and non-national, these poems rip through assumptions and leave us flabbergasted. A generative tension drives word deployment, with words making meaning, developing that 'genuine strangeness' that shifts poetic discourse into something differentiated, generative, essential. In MacCarter's work, the 'ordinary' becomes strange and a lens through which we might re-see our certainties. There's an accentual and cultural slippage grappling with the 'new' in interrogative ways that are beyond satirical-the poet inside and outside what is being critiqued, culpable and also stunned by what is seen. Inside, because he is a participant in the cultural debates and discussions of the modern, and outside because his language is so self-propelling that the poet follows in its wake, watching on. These critiques of commercial fetishisation and gender stereotyping/exploitation are politically and ethically driven challenges to us all, requiring us to question our own modes of reading. This is a riveting work--compulsive, committed and drop-jawed wondrous."--John Kinsella.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- "Cover illustration by Jackie Ryan" -- verso.
- Contents
- Glycogen -- California suite -- Cryptocurrency.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1895
- ISBN
- 9780734054258
- 0734054254
- OCLC
- 1041108805
- Author
- MacCarter, Kent, author.
- Title
- California sweet / by Kent MacCarter.
- Publisher
- Parkville, Vic. : Five Islands Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1895