Foreign Matter & Other Poems (eBook)

Ouyang Yu (Autor)

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2022
134 Seiten
Ginninderra Press (Verlag)
978-1-76109-394-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'Ouyang Yu's Foreign Matter rages against the vacuity of suburban life, alert to every racist slight, with a linguistic playfulness that shuffles and bounces through English language via the "e;gibberish keyings of an irrelevant computer"e;. Here Australia is often depicted as an unabashed identity-less dystopia, a volatile yet bland melting-pot of adopted and imported cultures, a "e;prisonful"e; of freedom. From Melbourne's bay of "e;muddy fury"e;, to uneventful suburbs and mown lawns, displaced characters flicker through anger and resignation, cynicism or bemusement, or even psychological breakdown - as sharply depicted in the sequence "e;Lines Written at the Melbourne Mental"e; that plays on the word 'home'. These prickly observations untangle the enduring uneasiness that's felt in both past and present countries, inhabiting a house "e;made of time"e; more than of space. Relentlessly critical, Ouyang's jagged nuanced poems shred any boundaries, fuelled by their clear-eyed "e;foreign matter"e; that is both catalyst and lament.' - Gig Ryan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Poetry
• ISBN-10: 1-76109-394-0 / 1761093940
• ISBN-13: 978-1-76109-394-4 / 9781761093944