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Croak
Jenny Sampirisi
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Description for Croak
Paperback. It ain't easy being green: Croak is a poetic negotiation between a species in crisis and its many cultural markers. Num Pages: 104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
Croak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates, and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender, and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Jenny Sampririsi's grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end. 'As invigorating and idiosyncratic a collection as this reviewer has encountered in some time. A must-read.' -- Seth Abramson, Huffington Post ... Read more
Croak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates, and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender, and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculation, Jenny Sampririsi's grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end. 'As invigorating and idiosyncratic a collection as this reviewer has encountered in some time. A must-read.' -- Seth Abramson, Huffington Post ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452509
SKU
V9781552452509
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About Jenny Sampirisi
Jenny Sampirisi is the Managing Editor of BookThug and co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing. She is the author of the novel is/was (Insomniac 2008). Croak is her first book of poetry. She lives in Toronto.
Reviews for Croak
'As invigorating and idiosyncratic a collection as this reviewer has encountered in some time. A must-read.'
Seth Abramson, Huffington Post 'I haven't read a book of poetry as tonally sly (strange), and as formally surprising
in that it never levels off into a settled shape, though the voicing is always grounded in ongoing immediacy
as Jenny Sampirisi's ... Read more
Seth Abramson, Huffington Post 'I haven't read a book of poetry as tonally sly (strange), and as formally surprising
in that it never levels off into a settled shape, though the voicing is always grounded in ongoing immediacy
as Jenny Sampirisi's ... Read more