School of Forgery (Paperback)

Jon Stone

ISBN 10: 178463087X / ISBN 13: 9781784630874

Published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2018

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Paperback. PBS Recommendation. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention. Both you and I are its alumni, and so is the bandit boiled alive in a cauldron of oil. So are the perpetrators of hoaxes, the writers of pornographic dojinshi, counterfeiters in love with their teachers and teens who dress up as birds to fight tyranny. Its professors proliferate. Its graduates excel in every field. Its campus is the world.This book, part prospectus and part fanzine, is made from stolen or borrowed parts centos and collages, half-rhymes and homophonics, translations and travesties. Equally inspired by manga luminaries like Naoki Urasawa, animation and adventure stories as it is by earlier poets, the natural world and human history, School of Forgery postulates the poem as knock-off, as reclaimed scrap, and most of all as through-and-through fabrication. What is the school of forgery? It's what teaches us fakery and invention in equal measure, the means by which we transform ourselves and our world. With its knock-offs, travesties, alt-pop golems, stolen text and tall stories, this book celebrates the singularly human compulsion to 'make things up'. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: School of Forgery (Paperback)
• Publisher: Salt Publishing, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178463087X
• ISBN 13: 9781784630874
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention.

The book is handily divided into two sections: Originals and Fakes. It’s possible, however, that there might have been some cross-contamination between the two. One or more of the translations of classical and contemporary Japanese poets in the Fakes section may, in fact, be made up. Some lines from the autobiography of Harpo Marx could somehow have found their way into the tale of the bandit Goemon. There are rumours that the liars, hoaxers and plagiarists who are both subject matter and tour guides in the first part have infiltrated the ranks of the dashing heroes and agents of the second. Some of these poems even steal, shamelessly, from each other.

Innocent believers in literary authenticity are advised to take especial care. This work may be, in its entirety, nothing more than a fabrication.