Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry - Couverture souple

 
9781554831227: Why Poetry Sucks: Humorous Avant-Garde and Post-Avant English Canadian Poetry
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1554831229 ISBN 13 : 9781554831227
Editeur : Insomniac Press, 2014

Synopsis

Despite a reputation for dead seriousness, poetry has a long relationship with humour, from Catullus' complaints to Chaucer's ribald tales to Kenneth Goldsmith's appearance on The Colbert Report. Focusing on our contemporary moment, this book scrutinises Canada's poetic avant-gardes for signs of humorous life. Moving deftly between entertainment, attack, and critique, this poetry makes us laugh while making us wonder why we are laughing at all. The authors draw from deep traditions in both poetry and comedy, often challenging the rigid literary and political impasses they encounter. In our current social and cultural game of Blockado (the game of barricades), humour can act as an important sledge, taking a swing at the institutions and ideologies we might wish changed -- all the while acknowledging, with bitter laughter and tongue in cheek, our apparent inability to change them.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Despite a reputation for dead seriousness, poetry has a long relationship with humour, from Catullus' complaints to Chaucer's ribald tales to Kenneth Goldsmith's appearance on The Colbert Report. Focusing on our contemporary moment, this book scrutinises Canada's poetic avant-gardes for signs of humorous life. Moving deftly between entertainment, attack, and critique, this poetry makes us laugh while making us wonder why we are laughing at all. The authors draw from deep traditions in both poetry and comedy, often challenging the rigid literary and political impasses they encounter. In our current social and cultural game of Blockado (the game of barricades), humour can act as an important sledge, taking a swing at the institutions and ideologies we might wish changed -- all the while acknowledging, with bitter laughter and tongue in cheek, our apparent inability to change them.

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Éditeur
Insomniac Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1554831229
ISBN 13 
9781554831227
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
436
Éditeur
Fitzpatrick Ryan, Ball Jonathan
Coordonnées du fabricant
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