Résumé
you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome . . ."Apostrophe" is:a) a figure of speech in which a person, an abstract quality or a nonexistent entity is addressed as though presentb) a poem written in 1993 in which every sentence is an apostrophec) a program-apostropheengine.ca-based on the 1993 poem that hijacks search engines in order to extend the poem infinitelyd) a book of poetry written using the websiteThe answer:e) all of the above.Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's Apostrophe contains all of these things, except the search engine (but you can visit that any time you like). Each line from the original poem has become the title of a new poem generated by the program's metonymic romp through the World Wide Web. Phrases rub against each other promiscuously; poems and readers alike come to their own conclusions. The results are by turns poignant, banal, offensive and hilarious, but always surprising and always unaffected. In other words, everything a book of contemporary poetry should be, and then some.Poet and scholar Charles Bernstein has suggested that Apostrophe may be related to Freud's notion of the uncanny, a somnambulistic drift that appears aimless yet somehow always returns to "you." Apostrophe is an entirely new kind of poetry: neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory.
Auteur
Auteur(s) : Bill Kennedy, Nathan Whitlock, John J. Thompson, Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry, Darren Wershler-Henry
Caractéristiques
Auteur(s) : Bill Kennedy, Nathan Whitlock, John J. Thompson, Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry, Darren Wershler-Henry
Publication : 26 septembre 2011
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [PDF]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF)
Taille(s) : 3,97 Mo (PDF)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9781554907229
EAN13 (papier) : 9781550227222