Sputnik's Cousin
Author(s): Kent MacCarter
The poems and non-fiction collected in Sputnik's Cousin rinse, relent and tumble in the slipstream of modernity. The indefatigable nature of objects - how they reverberate in the proximity of others and become polished from anachronistic histories retold - hum a progress charged by humanity's witless pursuit of technology and civility. MacCarter's poetry is a menagerie of Rube Goldberg contraptions; invoking idiom, definition, and refraction while harnessing the slope, speed and gravity of language to set in motion these absurdist machines. A light switch is turned off, but not by means of a flick: it took fracking in Russia, the building of a sand castle and a monastic jeep to do so. These are maximalist poems whose syntax is coerced through yoga ...poems of humour, warning and visceral sound.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Transit Lounge Publishing
- : Transit Lounge Publishing
- : 0.35
- : 01 May 2014
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : Australia
- : 01 May 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kent MacCarter
- : Paperback
- : May-14
- : 821
- : 144