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Controvertibles

By Quan Barry

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780822980155, 9780822958604
LCC
PS3602
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
234 kB (239403 bytes)
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
73\73
Time added
2023-08-08 06:19:43
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Description

Controvertibles features more of the refined brilliance and delicate lyricism of this poet, cast in a more meditative mode. Throughout, she examines cultural objects by lifting them out of their usual settings and repositioning them in front of new, disparate backdrops. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump in the 1968 Olympics is slowed down and examined in the style of The Matrix's revolutionary bullet time. Samantha Smith, Richard Nixon, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the resurrection of Lazarus, and the groundbreaking 1984 Apple Computer Super Bowl commercial are among the many disparate people and objects Barry uses to explore the multifaceted nature of existence.

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