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From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.

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"First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out." CATHERINE WAGNER"

The Black Automaton

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    A Paperback / softback by Douglas Kearney, Catherine Wagner

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      Publisher: Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books
      Publication Date: 01/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9781934200285, 978-1934200285
      ISBN10: 193420028X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, this collection troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life.

      Trade Review
      "First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out." CATHERINE WAGNER"

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