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Portable Altamont
Brian Joseph Davis
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Description for Portable Altamont
Paperback. A collection of poems that features satires about local and international celebrities. It uses various literary forms to revel in and rearrange pop culture. It also contains an index that turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 171 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists. A word of warning: this ... Read more
Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists. A word of warning: this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451618
SKU
V9781552451618
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Ref
99-15
About Brian Joseph Davis
Brian Joseph Davis is an award-winning video artist; his punk recording of philosopher Theodor Adorno's writings led the New Yorker's Alex Ross to call him a genius. The UK's Frieze magazine recently declared his work 'serious hilarity... joyous and thoughtful.' Check out his website at www.brianjosephdavis.com
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