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Waka-Cola: A Tanka Guide to Pop Art (Paperback)
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Waka-Cola: A Tanka Guide to Pop Art (Paperback)
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Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
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Begun two decades ago as a tanka sequence dedicated to Roy
Lichtenstein, R. W. Watkins's Waka-Cola is the long-awaited fourth
title in the Poetical Perspectives series from Nocturnal Iris.
Throughout the volume, Watkins pays tribute to most of the major
American masters of 1950s and '60s pop art and neo-dada, utilising
the Japanese tanka-or waka-form of poetry to emulate their styles
and concepts. Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg,
Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal and
Ray Johnson are celebrated ever so imaginatively by Watkins, all
the while adhering to the traditional 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure.
The result is a short collection that both demonstrates the poet's
ability to transcend the perceived limits of the waka form, and
serves as a poetic reflexion of the mid 20th century New York art
scene. Highly visual in their application and pop-cultural in their
subject matter, these poems foreshadow similar projects forthcoming
in the PP series; so watch this space....
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