First time listener / Jennifer Zilm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zilm, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Essential poets ; 297.

Essential poets series ; 297

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

96 pages ; 13 x 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2022.

Summary:

"First-Time Listener explores the ramped up 21st century digitalization of the social world, while reaching back to the most ancient of manuscript cultures. In Part 1, all is queried: Gilgamesh, God, the Cloud, the Bible, Bob Dylan, technologies of the book, and CNN's Crimes of the Century. Part 2, Retrospective of the North in Gold, turns contemplative, reading the colours and astrological signs of the digital and urban 21st century worlds. The book concludes with Lost Time, an ambitious long poem that maps Zilm's girlhood in Surrey--located on the south bank of the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver--onto Proust's Combray, exploring cracks in the intersections of class, sex, gender, and language."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Ask Me!

Query: How do I know when my iBook has ended?

Journal for the Study of the Signs of the Apocalypse

Devotional: Hastings & Princess

Query: How do I resume? Can I use emoji in business emails?

The rare books cataloguer: A day in the life

Water and other volatiles

Query: I have to write a paper on Gilgamesh? What is a Gilgamesh?

Postdiluvian baggage

Bible salesman

Hey! Fever

QUERY: When I archive an email where does it go?

Spend some time with the word: tender

Culmination Card: The Emperor

QUERY: How big is the data? Can I compress losslessly?

Crimes of the century: A CNN interpretation

i. Drowning

ii. Exchange student

iii. Assassination attempt

iv. Oklahoma

v. The Branch

Politics

begotten.com

QUERY: Is it true that I can get any book online?

2. Retrospective Of The North In Gold

Retrospective of the North in gold

Lines for the flat earth fall

Vancouvering

Toronto

-A New York poem

Crepuscule: Basic bitch variations

First forays towards fieldwork of colour

Ornithology

Flat earth in colour: An anti ghazal

First-time listener: A how-to guide

3. Lost Time

i. Trigger warnings/'somewhere outside the realm'

ii. `one hears nothing when one listens for the first time'

iii. Sodom suburban

iv. `possible transformations during later childhood'

v. `signs traced through invisible ink behind her sad, submissive eyes'

vi. `I had merely the illusion of thinking a departure'

vii. Vous

The professor opens.

ISBN:

9781771837460

1771837462

OCLC:

1303003570