Congotronic / poems by Shane Book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Book, Shane.

Series:

Kuhl House poets

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 68 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014]

Summary:

At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book's Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book's poems splice, sample, college, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip-hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Collected Novellas of Gilbert Ryle 13

They Are Not Bits of Clockwork 15

They Are as Robinson Crusoes, Commanding 16

They Are Exploding Just Feet above the Desert Sands 17

They Cannot Be Taken to Bits 18

They Are Intrinsically Phosphorescent 19

They Are Not Motions, Suites, Cabins 20

They Foment a Revolt 21

They Have a Private Career 22

They Are of an Extraordinary Feral Territory 23

They Come Home in a Torrent of Laughter and a Nubian Eunuch-Powered Litter 24

The Ivorian "because because" 29

A Laborious Wakefulness or Was It a Most Unapologetic Whistling in the Ear 30

The Colony Mating Song 32

Bronze Age 33

Chinese Blow Up Doll 35

Freetown 37

Everywhere 38

H.N.I.C. 39

Flagelliforms 43

Flagelliform 61: Tilted away 45

Flagelliform 7 48

Flagelliform 21: Exile ("To be sure, hot water kills a man, But cold water too kills a man.") 50

Flagelliform 22 52

Flagelliform 3 54

Flagelliform 45 56

Flagelliform 50 59

Flagelliform 13: Night Births 60

Flagelliform 19: "Snake Foot That Does Not Walk." 62

Flagelliform 39: And the Name of That Spear Was, One Place Where It Enters, Nine Places Where the Blood Comes Out 63

Flagelliform 79 64.

ISBN:

1609383079

9781609383077

OCLC:

878111770