Vexations (eBook)

Annelyse Gelman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
96 Seiten
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82612-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world in this experimental book-length poem. Annelyse Gelman s book-length poem Vexations is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout the book winds a narrative about a mother and daughter as they move through a world of social and economic collapse in search of a post-capitalist safe haven. All the while, they also navigate a condition that affects the daughter s empathic abilities, making her vulnerable to emotional contagion. Vexations is titled and structured after Erik Satie s composition of the same name, a piece that requires patience, endurance, and concentration from both its audience and its players. Similarly, Gelman s Vexations employs repetition and variation to engage the reader s attention. Hers is an ambient poetry, drawing on the aesthetic qualities of drone music and sampling voices and sounds to create a lush literary backdrop filled with pulsing psychedelic detail.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-226-82612-0 / 0226826120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82612-7 / 9780226826127