| Ex Machina Contributor(s): Ball, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897388489 ISBN-13: 9781897388488 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2010 Annotation: A long poem at the fringes of the Canadian tradition, "Ex Machina" is a latticework of poetic and philosophical statements concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines. A series of three intertwining sequences, the reader is encouraged to move back and forth from statement to statement, seeking development but meeting frustration. The reader thus becomes a larval stage in the poems development, forging connections between its disparate parts during the course of this mental processing, as the text evolves over multiple readings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A long poem at the fringes of the Canadian tradition, Ex Machina is a latticework of poetic and philosophical statements concerning the symbiosis of humans, books, and machines. A series of three intertwining sequences, the reader is encouraged to move back and forth from statement to statement, seeking development but meeting frustration. The reader thus becomes a larval stage in the poem's development, forging connections between its disparate parts during the course of this mental processing, as the text evolves over multiple readings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ball, Jonathan: - Jonathan Ball is a writer, filmmaker, scholar, and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Calgary, with specializations in Canadian Literature and Literary Theory, and a focus in Creative Writing. He is the author of three books of poetry: EX MACHINA (BookThug, 2009), CLOCKFIRE (Coach House, 2010) and THE POLITICS OF KNIVES (Coach House, 2012). Jonathan is also a screenwriter and director. His film Spoony B aired on The Comedy Network and he is the co-author of an original screenplay, Way of the Samurai, which was rewritten by the director as the independent feature film Snake River. Jonathan is the former short films programmer for the Gimli Film Festival and the former editor of the literary journal dANDelion. |