Joy Is So Exhausting

Joy Is So Exhausting
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Publisher : Coach House Books
Total Pages : 91
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ISBN-10 : 9781770562554
ISBN-13 : 1770562559
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Book Synopsis Joy Is So Exhausting by : Susan Holbrook

Download or read book Joy Is So Exhausting written by Susan Holbrook and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyfully melding knowing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches, line breaks slip into breakdowns, the serious plays comical and the comical turns deadly serious. Holbrook’s poems don’t use humour as much as they deconstruct the comic impulse, exposing its roots in the political, the psychological and the emotional life of the mind. Many of these poems import shapes and source texts from elsewhere – home inspection reports, tampon instructions, poems by Lorca – in a series of translations, transpositions and transgressions that invite a more intimate and critical rapport with the written word. This is not merely a book, it is a chocolate-covered artificially intelligent virus with an impish sense of humour that will continue to replicate in your mind long after initial exposure.


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