Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real by Surani, Moez

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771665384)

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Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real by Surani, Moez

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real

$18.00
Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real by Surani, Moez

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Following Surani's previous collection Operations, which excavated the debasement done to language by nations worldwide, how does one return to using language for poetry? Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real responds to this question. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. This collection uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways of being.

Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real is an act of resistance against dangerous and domineering narratives, and the power they inscribe.



Author: Moez Surani
ISBN-10: 1771665386
ISBN-13: 9781771665384
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
By Moez Surani
By Moez Surani
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MOEZ SURANI's writing has been published in Harper's Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Canadian Poetry, and The Globe and Mail. He has received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported research in India and East Africa. He has been an artist-in-residence in Finland, Italy, Latvia, Myanmar, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and at MacDowell in the US. He is the author of the novel, The Legend of Baraffo, and various poetry books, including Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real and Operations. Surani lives in Toronto.

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