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ODE ODE
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| By: |
Michael Farrell |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1876857536 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781876857530 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 November, 2002 |
| Pages: |
116 |
| Description: |
Widely and frequently published in magazines and newspapers, the author is Australia's influential new stylist, with a style that mutates as it charts the rough terrain of someone trying to read (and live in other ways) through their thirties. In this book, he displays a learning love of rural and avant garde cultures. |
| Synopsis: |
A book that 'does' the subject: including pop fantasies of hares, fluteplayers, nudes, whores and Proust; (Marianne) Moore-style constructions of a gamut from Gosse to Guns 'n Roses; sequences inspired by the songs of DJ Shadow, Blur and Oasis. A poetry of phrases rather than lines, of a mind thinking (Stein's 'entity') rather than a presentation of thought/identity. Following Brecht, suspense is held in high disregard; following Baudrillard, a democracy is offered: each poem a small celebration of the now, like a promiscuous Frank O'Hara with too many secrets. It's about balancing: influences/sources; what's written/what's unwritten; resistances/acceptances of meaning. God gave us irony to trick the devil, but the devil was already inside. |
| Reader Age: |
From 16 To 99 |
| US Grade: |
From Eighth Grade to College Senior |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Australia |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Age Book of the Year: Poetry 2003. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |