A state of emergency has broken out in 'the good city of Lyon', and protestors and police clash in the streets. At the job centre, there are few job opportunities for poets going around so our poet narrator - whom Lefebvre has brilliantly conceived without gender - wanders, existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich. Drawn by the spectre of an overbearing father and memories of an absent mother into a comical and troubling account of the push to be employed and the pull to write, they shape an almost-serious treatise in ten lessons for young poets. An irreverent take on the rise of nationalism and the hegemony capitalism has over our language, actions, and identities, Poetics of Work delivers a timely reflection on the condition of modern Europe.

Book Information
ISBN 9781838014131
Author Noemi Lefebvre
Format Paperback
Imprint Les Fugitives
Publisher Les Fugitives
Weight(grams) 120g