Sputnik's Cousin

Sputnik's Cousin

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Author: Kent MacCarter

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 144


The poems and non-fiction collected in Sputnik's Cousin rinse, relent and tumble in the slipstream of modernity. The indefatigable nature of objects - how they reverberate in the proximity of others and become polished from anachronistic histories retold - hum a progress charged by humanity's witless pursuit of technology and civility. MacCarter's poetry is a menagerie of Rube Goldberg contraptions; invoking idiom, definition, and refraction while harnessing the slope, speed and gravity of language to set in motion these absurdist machines. A light switch is turned off, but not by means of a flick: it took fracking in Russia, the building of a sand castle and a monastic jeep to do so. These are maximalist poems whose syntax is coerced through yoga ... poems of humour, warning and visceral sound.



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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.

Author: Kent MacCarter

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 144


The poems and non-fiction collected in Sputnik's Cousin rinse, relent and tumble in the slipstream of modernity. The indefatigable nature of objects - how they reverberate in the proximity of others and become polished from anachronistic histories retold - hum a progress charged by humanity's witless pursuit of technology and civility. MacCarter's poetry is a menagerie of Rube Goldberg contraptions; invoking idiom, definition, and refraction while harnessing the slope, speed and gravity of language to set in motion these absurdist machines. A light switch is turned off, but not by means of a flick: it took fracking in Russia, the building of a sand castle and a monastic jeep to do so. These are maximalist poems whose syntax is coerced through yoga ... poems of humour, warning and visceral sound.