Description
From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.
About the Author
DOUGLAS KEARNEY'S work as a poet, performer and librettist has been featured in many venues in print, in-the-flesh and in digital code. His first book, Fear, some, was published in 2006. In 2008, he was honored with a Whiting Writers Award. He lives in the Valley with his wife and teaches at California Institute of the Arts. For more info, visit www.douglaskearney.com
Reviews
"First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out." CATHERINE WAGNER"
Book Information
ISBN 9781934200285
Author Douglas Kearney
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
Publisher Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
About the Author
DOUGLAS KEARNEY'S work as a poet, performer and librettist has been featured in many venues in print, in-the-flesh and in digital code. His first book, Fear, some, was published in 2006. In 2008, he was honored with a Whiting Writers Award. He lives in the Valley with his wife and teaches at California Institute of the Arts. For more info, visit www.douglaskearney.com
Reviews
"First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out." CATHERINE WAGNER"
Book Information
ISBN 9781934200285
Author Douglas Kearney
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
Publisher Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
