absolute bob (Serie D'ecriture, 23) - Softcover

Portugal, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936194023 ISBN 13: 9781936194025

Publisher: Burning Deck, 2010

Synopsis

Poetry. Translated from the French by Jennifer Moxley. bob, a brave little guy (joker, operator, sheer energy?) bops in the manner of a video-game through the ways a poem inhabits sense or nonsense, speeds or slows, slides into forms or undoes them. bob occupies his virtual field of action in perpetual motion, beats down doors, explores corridors, removes walls, strikes sparks from repetition, sets fire to "the same old," pulls the levers of creation. The book's 24 chapters remind us of film's 24 images per second--just as bob to French ears suggests bobine, the reel that unrolls them. Also of the 24 hours in the day of a man who must exhaust himself in command performances that gradually asphyxiate even the fabrication of verse.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Portugal was born in Angers, in 1949. She lives and teaches in Paris. She is also the model of a famous "Poets' Calendar."

Edition details

• Publisher: Burning Deck
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1936194023
• ISBN 13: 9781936194025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120