{"product_id":"apostrophe-bill-kennedy-9781550227222","title":"Apostrophe","description":"you are entirely happy with your poem \/ you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned \/ you are totally satisfied with the outcome \/ you are a man \/ you are a little confused \/ you are entirely happy with your poem \/ you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned \/ you are totally satisfied with the outcome ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Apostrophe\" is: \u003cbr\u003e a) a figure of speech in which a person, an abstract quality or a nonexistent entity is addressed as though present \u003cbr\u003e b) a poem written in 1993 in which every sentence is an apostrophe \u003cbr\u003e c) a program -- apostropheengine.ca -- based on the 1993 poem that hijacks search engines in order to extend the poem infinitely \u003cbr\u003e d) a book of poetry written using the website \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe answer: e) all of the above. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry's \u003ci\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/i\u003e contains all of these things, except the search engine (but you can visit that any time you like). Each line from the original poem has become the title of a new poem generated by the program's metonymic romp through the World Wide Web. Phrases rub against each other promiscuously; poems and readers alike come to their own conclusions. The results are by turns poignant, banal, offensive and hilarious, but always surprising and always unaffected. In other words, everything a book of contemporary poetry should be, and then some. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoet and scholar Charles Bernstein has suggested that \u003ci\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/i\u003e may be related to Freud's notion of the uncanny, a somnambulistic drift that appears aimless yet somehow always returns to \"you.\" \u003ci\u003eApostrophe\u003c\/i\u003e is an entirely new kind of poetry: neither stable nor unstable, sections come and go, but the overall shape of the poem remains vaguely familiar, like a trick of memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Kennedy,Darren Wershler-Henry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155022722X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550227222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Misfit Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 5.32w x 0.78d","brand":"Bill Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447910281471,"sku":"9781550227222","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fcfff6b2-31ed-4759-b5d6-7d44ce428bab.jpg?v=1777235642","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/apostrophe-bill-kennedy-9781550227222","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}