Lack Lyrics - Couverture souple

Millar, Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1897388071 ISBN 13 : 9781897388075

Editeur : Book*hug, 2008

Synopsis

Poetry. Imagine the conflictual aesthetic that might arise out of being downsized from what essentially amounts to a dead-end job you don't find particularly meaningful. One day at work while waiting for the job to end you begin to e-mail yourself nasty little messages that accumulate into poems containing all sorts of things you wish you could say, but can't. The only outlet you seem to have is the poem, and you understand how unfortunate that is, how useless it is, but it's all you have. And then one day you go into work and it's your last day, and you shake your employer's hand good-bye, and you leave. And that's it. All you have left are your poems. And they eventually become LACK LYRICS by Jay MillAr, a pathetically self-published chapbook that has no spine, isn't eligible for the kinds of funding, attention, or prizes that "real books" or poetry qualify for. It doesn't even have any blurbish endorsements from other writers attached to it. It even ties for the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award, proving that it lacks even that certain something it takes to win an entire prize.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jay MillAr is the author of several books, the most recent of which include I COULD HAVE PRETENDED TO BE BETTER THAN YOU, small blue, ESP: ACCUMULATION SONNETS, Other Poems, Timely Irreverence, False Maps for Other Creatures, Mycological Studies, and THE GHOSTS OF JAY MILLAR. He is also the author of several privately published editions, including LACK LYRICS, which tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jay is the co-publisher at Book*hug. He also curates Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. He teaches poetry/poetics at an imaginary institution called Toronto New School of Writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book*hug
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1897388071
• ISBN 13: 9781897388075
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 40
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible