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Vlarf (Paperback)
Loot Price: R461
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Vlarf (Paperback)
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
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Loot Price R461
Discovery Miles 4 610
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Holmes entered the cabinet / of the respectable reverend / (who was
in fact a closet naturalist) / and found so many Victorian things.
In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement
that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd
internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of
Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion
strange, sad, and funny forms and feelings in poetry. Vlarf pursues
expressions of sentiment that may have become unfamiliar,
unacceptable, or uncool since the advent of modernism by mining
Victorian texts and generic forms with odd inclinations, using
techniques that include erasure, bout-rime, emulation, adaptation,
reboot, mimicry, abhorrence, cringe, and love. Erasures of massive
volumes of prose by John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin become concise
poems of condensed sadness; a reboot of Christina Rossetti's
"Goblin Market" is told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy
with an imaginary albatross pal; recovered fragments from an
apocryphal book of Victorian nonsense verse are pieced together; a
Leonard Cohen song about Queen Victoria is offered in a steampunk
rendering; and a meditative guinea pig delivers a dramatic
monologue in the vein of Robert Browning. Camlot moves through
Victorian literature as a collector in a curiosity shop, seeking
the oddest forms of feeling in language to shape them into
peculiarly affective poems.
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