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Congotronic
Shane Book
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Description for Congotronic
Paperback. Series: Kuhl House Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110.
At Once original, strange, Funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.
Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip-hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. In fusing disparate texts, each poem in this collection attempts to create a ... Read more
At Once original, strange, Funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.
Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip-hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. In fusing disparate texts, each poem in this collection attempts to create a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
Kuhl House Poets
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609383077
SKU
V9781609383077
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Ref
99-15
About Shane Book
Shane Book is the author of Ceiling of Sticks, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He is also a filmmaker whose award-winning work has screened around the world in numerous fi lm festivals and on television. He is a graduate of New York University, USA, and the Iowa ... Read more
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