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Fauxhawk

By Ben , Doller

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0819575860, 978-0-8195-7586-9, 978-0-8195-7587-6, 0819575879
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16525687 bytes)
Series
Print version record
Pages
100\97
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Description

A politico-linguistic problem, a conflicted hairstyle, and a conflict-bound drone, Fauxhawk works in the space where dissent becomes materialized, ironized, and commodified. Engaging drone optics, redactions, renditions, comedy, and cinema, Ben Doller wrenches exuberant music from the drone of the everyday. The citizens in these poems are fraught in their passivity, both ashamed of being and of being surveyed. Occupied by the material forces conspiring against poetry, Fauxhawk takes on the economics of writing, university bureaucracies, and complicit injustice. The poems in Doller’s thrilling new collection attempt to find their own tone amid the blare via formal innovation, carving a space where presence is signified, in hopeful and clarifying resistance. An online reader’s companion is available at http://bendoller.site.wesleyan.edu

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