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Rag
Julie Carr
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Description for Rag
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
The question of civic lyric-the possibility of a politics of mourning-runs through this book-length aria-errancy-eros. All vectors of "rag" are at work: polemic political journal, syncopated turn-of-century song, menstrual blood, burial shroud, complaint, insult, a wiping cloth, the barest semblance of clothes, the slang word for woman. The energy running beneath this rag is human violence and sexual force erupting through fragments of film, fairy tale, news, novels: a father on fire, stranger in tears, prisoner who believes he's a dog, women dressed in food, women refusing to eat, a body with no face, or a face with no skin. ... Read more
The question of civic lyric-the possibility of a politics of mourning-runs through this book-length aria-errancy-eros. All vectors of "rag" are at work: polemic political journal, syncopated turn-of-century song, menstrual blood, burial shroud, complaint, insult, a wiping cloth, the barest semblance of clothes, the slang word for woman. The energy running beneath this rag is human violence and sexual force erupting through fragments of film, fairy tale, news, novels: a father on fire, stranger in tears, prisoner who believes he's a dog, women dressed in food, women refusing to eat, a body with no face, or a face with no skin. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Richmond, CA, United States
ISBN
9781890650933
SKU
V9781890650933
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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