Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?

Broadbent, Laura

ISBN 10: 098657659X / ISBN 13: 9780986576591

Published by Invisible Publishing, 2012

About this Item

Personal inscription from author on half-title page. Light wear to edges. A few small marks to covers.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1759690221631

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?
• Publisher: Invisible Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098657659X
• ISBN 13: 9780986576591
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian
  • Poetry
  • Women Authors/Artists

About this title

Synopsis

An experiment in hybrid and versatility of voice, these texts stutter around the slipperiness of language and the transience of desire.The first section is an exercise in paradox wherein language as medium breaks free of signification and desire, knowing very well that language is inextricable from desire. The second section concedes that language may be inescapable yet its borders and meanings must and can be moveable, so that through the decomposition of what has been said or written the new may sustain itself on the dregs of the past. The third section is a burlesque reflection on the kaleidoscopic incarnations of Eros as it passes through assorted personalities and neuroses, that is, a chorus of anonymous men, all in various states of confusion about love. Each man is but a different face on the ten-thousand-sided-dice of the same drive wherein gender stereotypes are inflated to show their contours, exposing romantic desire as it is: essential, absurd, random, hideous, and blind.

About the Author

Laura Broadbent is the author of Oh There You Are I Can’t See You Is It Raining? (Invisible), which won the 2012 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and In on the Great Joke (Coach House Books). Originally from Stratford, Ontario, she currently lives in Montreal where she is working on her PhD in Literature.