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Sonnet's Shakespeare : 154 textile winds, or aggrecultures, or ecolo izations, or / Sonnet l'Abbé.

Van Pelt Library PR9199.4 .L33 S66 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
L'Abbé, Sonnet, author.
Contributor:
Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William.
Sonnets (Shakespeare, William).
Canadian poetry--21st century.
Canadian poetry.
Canadian literature--21st century.
Canadian literature.
Canadian poetry--Women authors.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
166 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2019]
Summary:
"In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labor, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems in Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one 'aggro cultured' Shakespearean sonnet -- displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced." -- From the rear cover.
Contents:
Where these poems were written
Epigraphs
On the procedure
Poems (I-CLII)
Notes on the poems
Acknowledgements
Index of entry points.
Notes:
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Other Format:
L'Abbé, Sonnet, author. Sonnet's Shakespeare./
ISBN:
9780771073090
0771073097
OCLC:
1114498382
Publisher Number:
99984108024

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