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Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Paperback)
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Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Paperback)
Series: Salt Modern Poets
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Complete Twentieth Century Blues is the definitive edition of a
long network of interrelated texts that the author wrote and
assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the
last century. Many of the texts have appeared before, in both
pamphlets and in critically acclaimed full-length volumes, but this
edition has been revised throughout. It also includes a previously
unpublished book-length text on the paintings of Jack B. Yeats, as
well as a number of shorter pieces. All now appear in their
intended order, and with their connections to other poems made
apparent via an index. At the centre of the book is the sequence
The Lores, written according to a strict word count and introducing
the politics and poetics of 'creative linkage' demonstrated
throughout. It focuses upon fascism and resistances to it. Running
through the volume are the 'Empty Diaires' which offer an
alternative history of the twentieth century, told through a series
of female narrators. Woven between these are poems on blues music,
the first Gulf War, Stalin's poems, failed utopias, the Earl of
Rochester, a sci-fi elegy for the human, a translation from Horace,
the ideology of Thatcherism, atheist hymns, a hilarious romp with a
very rude Robinson Crusoe, homages to various other artists, and an
elegy to Frank Sinatra. The hilarious Wayne Pratt spoofs find their
final resting place here too. The prose-poem essay, 'The End of the
Twentieth Century', brings the project to rest with a celebration
of the complexity of our powers of human connection.
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