Зарубежные стихи
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные стихиOf the Subcontract
Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
Dead White Men
Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of dead white men that litter our geographies with the details of their so-called discoveries and ‘conquests,’ Dead White Men turns ideas of exploration, finding and keeping back on themselves. Engaging with European exploration and scientific texts from the 15th to the 19th centuries, this book reexamines histories many would like to forget.
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
Featuring a series of color poems sparked by a job writing nonfiction magazine articles about synaesthesia and Fisher Price refrigerator magnets, the poems in this collection are as alive as the world from which they borrow. Besner plumbs the depths of alternative physics, glamour, economics, and virtual reality with great attention to prosody and a bleak sense of humor.
Common Place
Common Place negotiates intimacy while navigating the complexities of memory, addressing shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes challenged by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush hour transit, Sarah Pinder explores seeing and being seen in our most private and public of moments. With considered, quiet urgency, these poems name our ambiguous, aching present and look towards what comes next.
Mission Creep
Intertextual engagement with words by Samuel Beckett, Hannah Arendt, Evel Knievel, Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, Keats, Wallace Stevens, Wikipedia, the CIA’s Human Resources Exploitation manual.Mission Creep began as reworkings of material from the CIA’s Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual. The project began at the time that the first reports of torture were coming out of Guantanamo Bay; Trotter felt it seemed fitting to torture the text itself, using multiple processes, from traditional literary constraints to the use of audio editing software. What began to emerge were themes, characters, and convoluted narratives: narrative from noise, music from metadata.Resonates with the recent publication of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Melville House).
Country Club
McGuire's father is the current president of Monsanto Canada. Though the work isn't strictly autobiographical, he uses the blurring of the personal and corporate as a springboard for his poetic themes and obsessions. As he said, « Being a wall-fly in the Oval Office of global food production, offspring of a corporate exec, was not the impetus of Country Club, it is a weather pattern of the unique climate the collection has been born into.» This isn't straight ecopoetry, but the poet's connection to one of the most reviled companies on Earth could help the book find a substantial reach outside the usual spheres of poetry readership in Canada and the US: environmentalists, anti-GMO activists, food scientists, policy analysts etc.Many of the poems in this collection were written while McGuire was living in his father's house in southwest Florida, where he found an affinity with the Sunshine State: «I embraced my consumer capitalist heritage. Saluted palm trees. Kept the driveway swept. Surrendered to the unflinching positivity of the neighbours.»
Ardour
"[Nicole Brossard] is a wholly singular writer, part of a larger movement of Québec Women's writing, part of feminist writing, avant-garde writing, part of lesbian writing, but wholly, unequivocally, herself."—Sina Queyras something like wait for mein the braille of scarstonight can i suggest a little punctuationcircle half-moon vertical line of astonishmenta pause that transformslight and breathinto language and threshold of fire Even as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself on the horizon, Ardour reminds us that the silence pulsing within us is also a language of connection. In these poems, intimacy with the other is another astonishment—a pleasant gasp, a «pause that transforms light and breath into language and threshold of fire.» Since her first book appeared fifty years ago, Nicole Brossard has left us breathless, expanding our notion of poetry and its possibilities. Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist, and essayist who has published more than thirty books since 1965 that have been translated into several languages. She has received two Governor General's Awards for poetry, the Canada Council's Molson Prize, le Prix Athanase-David, and the prestigious Chevalière de l'Ordre National du Québec. She lives in Montreal, Québec. Angela Carr is a poet and translator. Her most recent book is Here in There . Originally from Montreal, Québec, she currently lives in New York City.
Dear Leader
I'm ill-equipped  for this. I sit    by a fake fireplacethat frames a real flame.  I've been crossed    by two crows today.‘Multi-vectored, Rogers's poems hum with life and tension, their speaker poised as mother, seer, reporter and daughter. They speak of loss and cold realities (misplaced charms of luck, a tour of an assisted-living facility, coins thrown into Niagara Falls). They also interweave dreams and visions: «O Lion, I am / an old handmaiden; I will not lay the pretty baby in the lap / of the imposter.» Simple but evocative, at once strange and plain, Rogers's poems of address ricochet off the familiar «Dear Reader» or Dickinson's «Dear Master» … Rogers's poems provide instructions for what to leave, what to take and what to fight. They act as selvage between the vast mother-ocean — the mem of memory — and the fabric we make of the uncertain in-between.’— Hoa Nguyen, The Boston Review‘How can we live with the kind of pain that worsens each day? Dear Leader explains through bold endurance, enumerated blessings and the artistic imagination. By pasting stark truths over, or under, images of strange, compelling beauty, Rogers creates a collage, a simulation of the human heart under assault, bleeding but unbroken. Part Orpheus, part pop-heroine who can “paint the daytime black,” all, an original act of aesthetic violence and pure, dauntless, love.’— Lynn Crosbie’In Dear Leader, Damian Rogers re-invents the same-old poetic lyric to offers us one-of-a-kind insights on childbirth and party bars, rolling blackouts and old rock standards. Here, what looks at first like familiar language always reveals itself to be a rare mineral. And that’s the magic: this is a poetry that refuses to be staged or to succumb to cliché or mannerism, insisting on celebration and condemnation, caution and cosmic vibrations. “Say you’re a poet,” Rogers advises us, tongue-in-cheek, “Maybe you mean / Hi, I have a lot of feelings.” Striking that balance between one-liners and mourning is no small feat.‘—Trillium Award Jury CitationPraise for Paper Radio: ‘Paper Radio jumped out at me and I can’t say why, but that’s what you want poetry to do, and I never want to say why. Because it’s real and talking to me. Because it’s bloody and horrifying beauty. It’s the Clash and Buckminster Fuller, Auden and Bowie.— Bob HolmanOriginally from the Detroit area, Damian Rogers now lives in Toronto where she works as the poetry editor of House of Anansi Press and as the creative director of Poetry in Voice. Her first book, Paper Radio, was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
The Poetic Edda
"This is a wonderful new edition of the Poetic Edda . It captures the language, vitality, and rhythms of the original."—Jesse Byock, PhD, UCLAGods, giants, the undead, dwarves, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, and a giant wolf are just some of the stars in these Norse tales. Committed to vellum in Iceland around 1270, The Poetic Edda has compelled the likes of Richard Wagner, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorges Luis Borges, and W.H. Auden. Jeramy Dodds transmits the Old Icelandic text into English without chipping the patina of the original. Jeramy Dodds 's Crabwise to the Hounds was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry.
Multitudes
Revelling in the value of social polyphony from Walt Whitman's «Song of Myself,» Multitudes looks at its contemporary theatres of Facebook and Twitter, post-riot police surveillance, protest culture and poetry itself. With wit, perceptiveness and her trademark linguistic sonar, Margaret Christakos keenly examines intimacies and banishments, as well as intergenerational grief, self-display and social hope.