| 22 Skidoo/Subtractions: Opus Minus One Contributor(s): Boughn, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897388349 ISBN-13: 9781897388341 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2009424548 |
| Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" (0.22 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 22 Skiddo takes as its playground the junkyard of Modernity. In a contemporary world which discards memory and experience along with last season's shoes, any building over 25 years old, and millions of tons of last years' computers and cell phones, these poems recycle archeologically recovered materials into a funny, lively exploration of the possibilities of creation in a world where the young think that what Duke Ellington made wasn't really music. If 22 Skiddo reclaims the junk of modern culture, finding for it new forms and arrangements, SubTractions kicks the props from under the elaborate illusion of completion that ironically locates a world without history. Beginning with Gilles Deleuze's proposal that the only role for 1 in our contemporary experience is as -1, destabilizing whatever arrangements of thought that try to seize and secure the ground of their own composition, these poems move through the daily experience of kid's soccer games, orchestra practice, karate lessons, and mushroom infestations, vandalizing the usual and leaving behind the shattered languages of its beautiful wreckage struggling toward speech. |
Contributor Bio(s): Boughn, Michael: - Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters for nearly ten years before returning to university to earn a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTAL, 22 SKIDDO / SUBTRACTIONS, COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST- LUCREATIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC (shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry), GREAT CANADIAN POEMS FOR THE AGED VOL. 1 ILLUS. ED. (2012), and most recently, CITY: BOOK 1: SINGULAR ASSUMPTIONS (BookThug, 2014). He has also published books for young adults, including the Maple Award nominated Into the World of the Dead, a mystery novel, and a descriptive bibliography of the American poet, H.D. He recently edited (with Victor Coleman) Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. He has taught courses at the University of Toronto since 1993, recently focusing primarily on American writing with special emphasis on the innovative writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. |