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Synopsis
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.
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About the Author
Frank Davey
Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic that drive this play.
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"Risqué metaphors ... scandalously unpoetic...a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty."
― Smaro Kamboureli
"Risqué metaphors scandalously unpoetic a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty."
Smaro Kamboureli
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- PublisherTalonbooks
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0889222851
- ISBN 13 9780889222854
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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