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Kim Kardashian's Marriage (Paperback, Main)
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Kim Kardashian's Marriage (Paperback, Main)
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Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to
the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012
Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72
poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines
of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage
lasted for 72 days, and was seen by some as illustrative of the
performative spectacle of celebrity life. Whatever the truth of
this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Riviere has used
the furore as a point of ignition, deploying terms from
Kardashian's make-up regimen to explore surfaces and
self-consciousness, presentation and obfuscation. His approach
eschews a dependence upon confessional modes of writing to explore
what kind of meaning lies in impersonal methods of creation. For,
as with 81 Austerities, the process of enquiry involves the
composition method itself, this time in poems that have been
produced by harvesting and manipulating the results of search
engines to create a poetry of part-collage, part-improvisation. The
effect is as refractive as it is reflective, and disturbs the slant
on biography until we are left with a pixellation of the first
person. Kim Kardashian's Marriage is a captivating examination of
artifice and reality, privacy and exposure, and an uncanny
commemoration of the contemporary moment.
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