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Neighbour Procedure

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Description for Neighbour Procedure Paperback. A virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 171.
Rachel Zolf's powerful follow-up to the Trillium Award-winning Human Resources is a virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient scripture and contemporary theory that puts the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine firmly in the crosshairs. Plucked from a minefield of competing knowledges, media and public texts, Neighbour Procedure sees Zolf assemble an arsenal of poetic procedures and words borrowed from a cast of unlikely neighbours, including Mark Twain, Dadaist Marcel Janco, blogger-poet Ron Silliman and two women at the gym. The result is a dynamic constellation where humour and horror sit poised at the threshold of ethics and politics.

Product Details

Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452295
SKU
V9781552452295
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Ref
99-15

About Rachel Zolf
Rachel Zolf is a poet and editor from Toronto who is presently living in New York. Her third full-length collection Human Resources won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and was a finalist for a Lambda Award. Previous collections include Shoot & Weep (Nomados), from Human Resources (Belladonna books), Masque (The Mercury Press) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks).

Reviews for Neighbour Procedure
'Neighbour Procedure ... pack[s] an intellectual punch that reminds us, once again, of the powerhouse generations of innovative feminist poets that continually challenge and transform our understanding of what poetic texts can do.'
Matrix Magazine 'Rachel Zolf brings an incredible range of readings to bear on the poetic line. If there is a mixing of media within these lines, there is also a proliferation of tongues, an effort to let language collide to produce a more acute and anguished experience of war ... This is a courageous and moving work that feels like the struggle of a lifetime condensed into potent lines.'
Judith Butler, critical theorist and author of Gender Trouble 'Politics and poetry are a volatile mix. Yes, except that the voices of war and terrorism are themselves defiantly both. Zolf shows us this truth, and so her lyrics s(t)ing, acidly.'
George Elliott Clarke, author of George and Rue 'This book is a sharp, painful cry against the tyranny of the monologic.'
Charles Bernstein, author of Girly Man and Attack of the Difficult Poems 'Neighbour Procedure is the most realized conceptual-modular book of political poetry I've read to date; Zolf's language-motion escapes several nation-states' culture capture zones while re-threading the very notion of "self"-representational purposivity.'
Rodrigo Toscano, author of Collapsible Poetics Theatre

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