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The Working Classic
Aaron Kent
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R382
R309
Discovery Miles 3 090
Save R73 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The Working Classic is a collection of poetry, interviews, and
essays with Aaron Kent. These diverse texts attempt to showcase how
a gentrified creative industry routinely ignores working class
voices unless that voice is an act of appropriation by a middle or
upper class individual. Through a history of struggling with his
own accent and upbringing, Kent showcases a working class poetics
that aims to present both a reality of experience and a subversion
of expectations. The interviews, essays, and reviews of Kent's work
are a hostile depiction of how establishment arts attempt to set
out the guidelines under which working class voices are allowed to
participate, while the poems prove that working class voices can
offer more than schadenfreude. “A definite classic; Kent
continues to find new words and new forms to peel back the layers
of the self. Non-linear, unpredictable and always surprising, this
is a book only Kent could conceive of , and certainly one that
nobody else could write” – Andrew McMillan For Fans Of: J. H.
Prynne, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anthony Anaxagorou
"This poetical collection, Angels the Size of Houses (70-plus
sheets of cool and frantic paginated speech) is a buzzing and
hyper-inventive set of multifarious devices, with exceptional
prosodical hazardry and multiple re-echoes along its spacious
corridors - with many doorways for we and us open to its flaring
physiological recitatives. The passage construction is familial and
domestic in tone-row, while also widely outlandish,
saltarello-style and stylish also with it. There are culinary hints
and self-displays in great lexical abundance to whet the whistle,
with phantasm and modest astonishments in witty comedy, escaping
grandeur but never remote from scalar enlargements, often wisely
gnomic, gazing out of the window at continental drift and its
markings. William Burroughs is reported to have replied, when asked
his opinion about death, 'well it's a step in the right direction',
obsequious in full funeral rigout, laburnum decor, with many choice
aromas and childhood joys. Indeed alongside outbreaks of passionate
attachment with parents and kids, the schedule is mostly immune to
current political conflagrations and their drear localisms. The
protocols display exceptional narrative candour, own-brand, also in
white, offering vagaries of choice oddity, medical and arctic in
well-tempered rational diffusion; anatomical by alternating
reduction and upfront funny by marginal exploits; work and glancing
damage on all sides, broken and 'racing to the bottom', where else.
Reading along and across these pages is unquestionable adventurism,
rapid eye movements seem to catch up with and overrun occupational
impatience, as dear reader in friendship you soon enough shall find
out." -J.H. Prynne "Every poem is a dizzy word-dazzle, a dance of
images, expressing a real life of work, babies, love and loss. Some
are shaped by word-music. Some scatter the page and the mind,
stretching poetry to its limits, and leave me wondering. No bad
thing." -Gillian Clarke "Poetry that vibrates on its own frequency,
and invites the reader into its own surreal soundscapes. Here, new
connections of language make us see the world afresh, and ask the
reader to tune in to the long-held notes of truth just beneath the
surface" -Andrew McMillan "Here, in this beautiful book, is the
poetry of the possible. With words that are 'heaven sent and
glitter prone', Aaron takes us on a journey that is as vital as it
is extravagant, urging us into the fantastic, and turning our
everyday scenes into glittering vistas. It is a collection to be
dipped into again and again, one that leaps with language, and
lends its readers fresh eyes." -Theophilus Kwek
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Bampy (Paperback)
Aaron Kent
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R129
Discovery Miles 1 290
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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What inside cat hasn't looked out the window with a wonder in their
eyes at what the outside world might offer? The cat in this story
finds out whether the grass really is greener on the other side of
the window.
What inside cat hasn't looked out the window with a wonder in their
eyes at what the outside world might offer? The cat in this story
finds out whether the grass really is greener on the other side of
the window.
Que gato adentro no ha mirado por la ventana con una maravilla en
los ojos a lo que el mundo exterior puede ofrecer? El gato en esta
historia se dara cuenta realmente si la hierba es mas verde al otro
lado de la ventana.
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