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Congotronic / Shane Book.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Book, Shane, author.
- Series:
- Kuhl House poets.
- Kuhl House Poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanticism--Poetry.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book's poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array of sources, including slave narratives, Western philosophy, hip hop lyrics, and the diaries of plantation owners. In fusing
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- African Evening
- World Town
- Security of the First World
- Last
- Pore Tune
- Janelas
- Mack Daddy Manifesto
- The Collected Novellas of Gilbert Ryle
- They Are Not Bits of Clockwork
- They Are as Robinson Crusoes, Commanding
- They Are Exploding Just Feet above the Desert Sands
- They Cannot Be Taken to Bits
- They Are Intrinsically Phosphorescent
- They Are Not Motions, Suites, Cabins
- They Foment a Revolt
- They Have a Private Career
- They Are of an Extraordinary Feral Territory
- They Come Home in a Torrent of Laughter and a Nubian Eunuch-Powered Litter
- The Ivorian "because because
- A Laborious Wakefulness or Was It a Most Unapologetic Whistling in the Ear
- The Colony Mating Song
- Bronze Age
- Chinese Blow Up Doll
- Freetown
- Everywhere
- H.N.I.C.
- Flagelliforms
- Flagelliform 61: Tilted away
- Flagelliform 7
- Flagelliform 21: Exile ("To be sure, hot water killsa man, But cold water too kills a man.")
- Flagelliform 22
- Flagelliform 3
- Flagelliform 45
- Flagelliform 50
- Flagelliform 13: Night Births
- Flagelliform 19: "Snake Foot That Does Not Walk."
- Flagelliform 39: And the Name of That Spear Was, One Place Where It Enters, Nine Places Where the Blood Comes Out
- Flagelliform 79
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781609383084
- 1609383087
- OCLC:
- 888045035
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