Metaphysical Licks - Couverture souple

Dick, Gregoire Pam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771660554 ISBN 13 : 9781771660556

Editeur : Book*hug, 2014

Synopsis

Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brothers, and betroths her (unhappily) to Nietzsche. Crossing New York City with Vienna and Berlin, it composes dissonance from urban moments, narrative fragments, and philosophical remarks. The inventive, androgynous, sexually loose (and intermittently incestuous) persona of Greta expresses itself through the surreal and haunted imagery of Trakl's poems. Readers will be drawn to Dick's combination of girl/punk/genderqueer rebelliousness and intensely questioning thought, in a text where creativity alone offers escape and exultation, and subjectivity keeps changing its sounds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gregoire Pam Dick (aka Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al.) is the author, qua Mina, of DELINQUENT (Futurepoem, 2009). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Aufgabe, EOAGH, Fence, Matrix, Open Letter, Poetry Is Dead, and elsewhere, and has been featured in Postmodern Culture; it is included in the anthologies THE SONNETS (ed. S. Cohen and P. Legault, Nightboat Books, 2012) and TROUBLING THE LINE: TRANS AND GENDERQUEER POETRY AND POETICS, (ed. TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books, 2013). Her philosophical work has appeared in a collection published by the International Wittgenstein Symposium. Also an artist and translator, Dick lives in New York City, where she is currently doing work that makes out and off with Büchner, Wedekind, Walser, and Michaux.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book*hug
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771660554
• ISBN 13: 9781771660556
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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