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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate
and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry...
After years of travelling and losing almost everything - his
country, his children, his wife, his farm - an Afghan man finds
unexpected warmth and comfort in a stranger's home... A student
protester is forced to leave his homeland after a government
crackdown, and spends the next 25 years in limbo, trapped in the UK
asylum system... Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the second
volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of
those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves
indefinitely detained. Here, poets and novelists create a space in
which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely
heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and
listening becomes an act of welcome.
Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic,
proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way
across narratives of genders, and addresses the brutality of social
conventions with caustic humor. This labyrinthine text navigates
love and protest in landscapes impacted by global warming, systemic
violence and solar eclipses. Bergvall continues her previous work
creating texts that rest on transhistoric forms of English, beyond
its dominance as a global lingua franca, and places her quest in
the intersections and migrations of stories and languages.
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Drift (Paperback)
Caroline Bergvall
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R582
R425
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Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime
imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas
to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the
song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century
Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both
ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the
plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting
new book. Drift is the second of Bergvall's explorations of
historical English language.
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one
of the U.S.'s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major
themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his
poetry. The book is intended for both scholars looking for informed
critical insight into Bernstein's work as well as for students to
examine his work. The scholarship covers many of his major pieces
and genres, like sound, stage, and poetry. The authors write about
his main themes and influences and give insight into some of the
major poetry ideas currently being debated in the U.S., such as the
nature and future of experimental poetry, the influences on
contemporary poetry, the politics of poetry, and wide variety of
techniques currently being used. This book is valuable to
individuals interested in poetry and libraries trying to stay
abreast of the most important recent literary criticism/currents.
This major international anthology provides students and the
general reader with an invaluable introduction to contemporary
modernist poetry. Containing over thirty poets from Australia,
Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA, this selection offers a
powerful vision of late-Twentieth-century poetic achievement:
international, politically- and socially-engaged, and radical in
imaginative vision and practice. It celebrates risk, resistance,
protest and diversity within poetry, reaching across national and
cultural boundaries. Vanishing Points provides students of Creative
Writing, Cultural Studies, English and American Studies, as well as
the general reader, with an important survey of modernist poetry at
the start of the new millennium. * A unique introduction to the
wide range of modernist experiment in contemporary poetry * Ideal
study aid for students of poetry and poetics * Broad, international
selection of acclaimed modernist poets * Substantial contributions
offer important insights into the range of each poet's work From
the Introduction: The vanishing point lies beyond the horizon
established by ruling conventions, it is where the imagination
takes over from the understanding. Most anthologies of contemporary
verse are filled with poems that do not cross that dividing-line,
but our contention is that many poems in this volume are situated
on the threshold of conventional sense-making. They go beyond the
perspective of accepted canons of taste and judgement and ask
questions about where they belong, and who they are meant for,
often combining the pathos of estrangement with the irascibility of
the refusenik. All anthologies enter the world fully aware of their
genealogy, of where they fit in, of how they relate to certain
traditions of writing by affiliation or rejection. This combination
of dependent and independent gestures is inevitable, particularly
in the case of selections of work aligned with national or regional
versions of literary history. The present anthology does not fall
into that category; its international reach does not, however,
bring exemption from the dilemma of wanting to stand apart from
conditions of rivalry while also needing to claim a special value
in comparison with publications already available.
A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing-prose, poetry, and
hybrid-from its most significant practitioners and innovators A
variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and
hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream
traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual,
avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream,
avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms:
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid
Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing
that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives
in the early decades of the 21st century. Featuring over 100 pieces
from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of
aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve
Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all
challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a
collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made
today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities
available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of
literature's future. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped
contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein,
Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David
Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will
find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered.
Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and
scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature
can live. The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as
sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms,
offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An
online companion presents statements about the work and biographies
of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing
that can't be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to
read more.
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