Kim Kardashian's Marriage (Faber Poetry) - Softcover

Riviere, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571321437 ISBN 13: 9780571321438

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2018

Synopsis

A captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy and exposure from a Forward Prize-winning poet

The 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted for 72 days, and was seen by some as illustrative of the performative spectacle of celebrity life. Whatever the truth of this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Riviere has used the furore as a point of ignition, deploying terms from Kardashian's make-up regimen to explore surfaces and self-consciousness, presentation and obfuscation. His approach eschews a dependence upon confessional modes of writing to explore what kind of meaning lies in impersonal methods of creation. The process of enquiry involves the composition method itself; the poems have been produced by harvesting and manipulating the results of search engines to create a poetry of part-collage, part-improvisation. The effect is as refractive as it is reflective, and disturbs the slant on biography until we are left with a pixellation of the first person. Kim Kardashian's Marriage is a captivating examination of artifice and reality, privacy, and exposure, and an uncanny commemoration of the contemporary moment.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Riviere studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design, and holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA. He is the author 81 Austerities (Faber & Faber, 2012), which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Standard Twin Fantasy (f.u.n.e.x., 2014), a pamphlet of poems. He was a recipient of a 2009 Eric Gregory Award. Since 2015 Sam has run the independent publisher If a Leaf Falls Press in Edinburgh, which "publishes limited-edition pamphlets, typically of appropriated or procedural writing".

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beautiful pool

The splendour of Florida’s Gulf Coast
is rivalled by the elegant interior
of your luxurious two bedrooms.

Do you have a dream to build?
This image is minimalist.
Beautiful green grass scattered on the ground.

I really surprised myself
with several patios and intricate corridors,
antiques saved from around the world.

Like, I mean I knew I was that good.
I just didn’t think I could do it
under that much pressure.

View images as a ‘river of photos’,
immaculate and perfect.|infinity sunsets

You have stalked this blog,
you must really like me.
Message me anytime
even if it’s just to talk.
I blog about whatever I want.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0571321437
• ISBN 13: 9780571321438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112