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Advertising constructs us, always addressing, “You.” But who is this person, this “you” that advertising addresses? Poets and Killers answers this question by telling the life story of a man through advertising. Beginning in the 1940s when he is born, working up to 2009 when he dies, Poets and Killers uses lines taken directly from advertisements to write the main character’s biography. This book examines what it means to be an individual in a world where we are all sold the same individuality, exploring what possibilities for a non-utilitarian humanity still exist between the lines of advertising copy. By using the language of advertising to create something fundamentally unmarketable and useless, that is, the story of a fallible human life expressed through experimental poetry, Poets and Killers shows that despite the pervasiveness of advertising and its efforts to rob us of the ability to express ourselves without commodifying ourselves, we can still speak.
“Poets and Killers is a shining example of thoughtful and provoking appropriation-based poetry… an excellent start to a body of work worth reading.” — Broken Pencil
“Poets and Killers: A Life in Advertising is a great book to introduce a hesitant poetry reader to contemporary poetics.” — 95 Books
“Poets and Killers playfully investigates what it means to be ‘an individual in a world where we are all sold the same individuality.’” — Globe and Mail
“I read it in under an hour and I felt like it changed me.” – The Link
“…a quick, quirky read…” — Winnipeg Free Press
88 Pages
8.0in * 5.0in * 0.12in
0.22lb
October 10, 2010
9780981248875
eng
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