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Title: |
Versions Of North |
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| By (author): |
G P Lainsbury |
| ISBN10-13: |
1894759621 : 9781894759625 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
120 |
| Weight: |
.111 Kg. |
| Published: |
Caitlin Press (CA) - September 2011 |
| List Price: |
10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 11 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry by individual poets |
| In this late-modern period of slackened meaning, G P Lainsbury's "Versions of North" attempts to locate poetic consciousness in the drifting concept of north, using avant-garde techniques to reveal connections between disparate elements of signification. Lainsbury borrows from a wide variety of sources, filtering them through the grid of a disenchanted idealism, taking to heart the cyberpunk declaration that "information wants to be free". Lainsbury uses the page as physical space: a long line creeps into the margin, and margins float about without justification reflecting a desire to mix and confuse games, to play many simultaneously, to use the vice of poetry to pay homage to the virtue of science. He exploits a phantasmagorical lexicon that aggregates literary, philosophical and scientific avant-gardism, and challenges the reader to participate in the construction of a provisional space for effect. "Versions of North" engages with the environment of northern British Columbia; it is the manifestation of the poet's desire to create a cosmopolitan art in a place that modernity sometimes seems to have skipped right over. |
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