Author: Mark Anthony Cayanan Publisher: ISBN: 9781925818697 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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"Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous is a work of wild erudition and rococo elaboration, a collection of poems that loosely channels the dynamic of desire and inhibition in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice. The poems follows the trajectory of the ageing Aschenbach's pursuit of youth and beauty, transmuting his yearning and resistance into jittery flirtations with longing, decay and abandonment against a backdrop of political violence. The poems have an exuberant candour, formed by polyphonic allusions which enact the intersectionality of the speaker; by turns melodramatic, flirtatious, satirical. Like the tragic protagonist of Death in Venice, Cayanan's collection manifests a longing for extroversion sabotaged by its own will. It is a queer performance of anxiety and abeyance, in which the poems' speakers obsessively rehearse who they are, and what they may be if finally spoken to."--Back cover
Author: Eunice Andrada Publisher: Giramondo Publishing ISBN: 1925336662 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 83
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Powerful first collection by acclaimed Filipina Australian performance poet In Flood Damages Andrada explores themes associated with immigration and inheritance, through the figure of a young Australian Filipina woman, whose family has been irreparably damaged by deportation, violence and illness. The wounds inflicted by these events, political and personal, are felt most keenly in and through her body – ‘your blood sings of the scattered histories/ that left you here’ – and in a dramatic use of language, influenced by the rhythms of prayer, which expresses pain and anger with passionate intensity. A performance poet, Andrada combines the theatrical qualities of voice and image in this, her first published collection, affirming the female body as a site of vulnerability and power.
Author: Tiffany Jones Publisher: Clouds of Magellan ISBN: 0648746992 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 338
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Bent Street 4.2: Kiss My Apocalypse Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing and Ideas Bent Street is a biannual publication that gathers essays, fiction, poetry, artwork, reflections, and analysis to bring you 'The Year in Queer'
Author: Eunice Andrada Publisher: ISBN: 9781925818796 Category : Australian poetry Languages : en Pages : 71
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TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the magnitude of rape culture in the everyday: from justice systems that dehumanise survivors, to exploitative care industries that deny Filipina workers their agency, to nationalist monuments that erase the sexual violence of war. Unsparing in their interrogation of the gendered, racialised labour of care, the poems flow to a radical, liberatory syntax. Physical and online terrain meld into a surreal ecosystem of speakers, creatures, and excavated histories. Brimming with incantatory power, Andrada's verses move between breathless candour and seething restraint as they navigate memory and possibility. Piercing the heart of our cultural crisis, these poems are salves, offerings, and warnings.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781732153059 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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"Poetry, in Marlon Hacla's Melismas, abides by anticipations and arrivals. In these poems, a keen ear bears the vitality of voice, an ecstatic eloquence as song fortifies earth and alludes to grief unravelling. Hacla writes of audacious sentiment and a world wondrous that in these poems translate to an idiom that "returns [us] to the primeval nature of the ordinary." This is a grammar of looking at the world that Kristine Ong Muslim's translation aspires to cultivate, a vocabulary teeming with startling turns: systems that would keep us quiet, method to our extinction, machinery of wind, cellists and their exorcism. In this translation, we go through this cycle in anticipation of "the times [that] have been insinuating scores of uprising," arousals that "grasp the temperament of things." - Carlos Quijon, Jr., Art Historian & Curator "What's most distinguished in Marlon Hacla's Melismas is sincere invocation- "This is how I will carry on: lightning storm that enters a creek, dyed seraphim, bottled scorpion," its indisputable inaugurations of pressure and freedom- "split the violins with an ax," breaching form into form the riddled rhythms of our ageless Age of Noise, proletarian and industrial, domesticated and ferocious, are all "upright pickets" "worshipped by sound." Kristine Ong Muslim, as acousmatic translator, is the essential technomancer of Hacla's objets sonores. She stirs the "aching void" from which she's able to "open the chest that holds the sabers" and transmit a corybantic resistance of language against its own exacting dictatorship. To this Treatise of Self-Subversions Unfolding in Time- "This is no longer me," these "feathers of terror falling on my tabernacles" of perceiving where I perceive farther, stronger the "perspectives of enemies" alongside our relentless critique of reality, I offer solemn gratitude."-Marchiesal Bustamante, author of Mulligan (High Chair, 2016)"So much of Melismas seems to insinuate itself between the recognizable despairs of the commonplace and its disconcerting, rapidly constituting outcomes, Hacla's omnivorous consciousness troubling these two states, investigating and distorting where it is and what it's turning into into the shapes of its own suspicions. The voice of the poem in the Filipino original, so expertly pitched just below histrionics, acquires, in Muslim's translation, a lucidity that foregrounds its role as "the creator of engines that run [its] world": there's a private, arresting deliberateness behind the improvisational disorderings of imagery, the Ashberian way pronouns warp in and out of material antecedents. The distraught voice, relentlessly "eulogiz[ing] the futures," escalates its suspicions into foreknowledge, successfully forestalling but also goading itself toward horror, and exerts a tyranny of imagination over the real that in provocative art, such as in this book, feels a lot like freedom." -Mark Anthony Cayanan, author of Narcissus (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011), Except you enthrall me (University of the Philippines Press, 2013), and Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous (Giramondo Publishing, forthcoming 2021)"What's most distinguished in Marlon Hacla's Melismas is sincere invocation- "This is how I will carry on: lightning storm that enters a creek, dyed seraphim, bottled scorpion," its indisputable inaugurations of pressure and freedom- "split the violins with an ax," breaching form into form the riddled rhythms of our ageless Age of Noise, proletarian and industrial, domesticated and ferocious, are all "upright pickets" "worshipped by sound." Kristine Ong Muslim, as acousmatic translator, is the essential technomancer of Hacla's objets sonores. She stirs the "aching void" from which she's able to "open the chest that holds the sabers" and transmit a corybantic resistance of language against its own exacting dictatorship..."-Marchiesal Bustamante, author of Mulligan (High Chair, 2016)
Author: A. F. Inglott Bey Publisher: Alpha Edition ISBN: 9789353862992 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 196
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author: Elizabeth Susan Wahl Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804736502 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 372
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This book explores how representations of intimacy between women included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression.
Author: Michael Farrell Publisher: Giramondo Publishing ISBN: 1925818306 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 101
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Michael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highly regarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntax and punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination, for punning and the letter – in both its verbal and visual aspects — gives his poetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like ‘AC/DC As First Emu Prime Minister’, ‘Sheep, Golden Syrup, Elizabeth Bishop’, and ‘Cate Blanchett And The Difficult Poem’, I Love Poetry scrambles a landscape of colloquial and obscure images. Michael Farrell’s collections include living at the z, ode ode (shortlisted for the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award), BREAK ME OUCH, a raiders guide (published by Giramondo in 2008), thempark and thou sand. His second collection with Giramondo, Open Sesame (2011) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award for Poetry. Cocky’s Joy (Giramondo 2015) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He was the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. He is the author of a work of literary criticism, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796–1945 (Palgrave Macmillan).
Author: Norman Erikson Pasaribu Publisher: Inpress Books - Ipsuk ISBN: 9781911284239 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Sergius Seeks Bacchus is a heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion. Drawing on the poet's life as an openly gay writer of Bataknese descent and Christian background, the collection furnishes readers with an alternative gospel, a book of bittersweet and tragicomic good news pieced together from encounters with ridicule, persecution, loneliness, and also happiness. The thirty-three poems in Norman Pasaribu's prize-winning debut display a thrilling diversity of style, length, and tone, and telescope out from individual experience to that of fellow members of the queer community, finding inspiration equally in the work of great Indonesian poets and the international literary canon, from Dante to Herta Müller.
Author: Kathleen Ossip Publisher: Sarabande Books ISBN: 1946448796 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 127
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In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country—whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book’s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem “July.” In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.
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