Incitements

By (author): Sean Howard

Using techniques rooted in William Burroughs’ dada-inspired ‘cut-up’ method, Incitements takes the reader under the surface of three works of prose–Peter Sanger’s literary essay White Salt Mountain, Merritt Gibson’s guidebook Summer Nature Notes and Hans Fallada’s novel Every Man Dies Alone–exploring the poetic landscapes of their would-be unconscious. In the relentless imagistic flux, metaphoric excess and quantum poetics that results, Sean Howard uncovers new relationships and resonances in the prose and remixes them as poetry. As Merritt Gibson cautioned, when you turn over a rock “the animals that live on the undersurface are different from those that live on the uppersurface”; so too when we turn language’s stone.

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Sean Howard

Sean Howard is the author of four books of poetry, Local Calls (2009), Incitements (2011), The Photographer’s Last Picture (2016) and Ghost Estates (2018). As well as appearing in numerous literary journals, his work has been featured in The Best Canadian Poetry in English in both 2011 and 2014. Howard lives in Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is an adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.


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Using techniques rooted in William Burroughs’ dada-inspired ‘cut-up’ method, Incitements takes the reader under the surface of three works of prose–Peter Sanger’s literary essay White Salt Mountain, Merritt Gibson’s guidebook Summer Nature Notes and Hans Fallada’s novel Every Man Dies Alone–exploring the poetic landscapes of their would-be unconscious. In the relentless imagistic flux, metaphoric excess and quantum poetics that results, Sean Howard uncovers new relationships and resonances in the prose and remixes them as poetry. As Merritt Gibson cautioned, when you turn over a rock “the animals that live on the undersurface are different from those that live on the uppersurface”; so too when we turn language’s stone.

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Dimensions:

Pages
8in * 5in * 0.375in
165gr

Published:

April 01, 2011

ISBN:

9781554470969

Book Subjects:

POETRY / General

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Language:

eng

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