Birmingham Jazz Incarnation
or, Playing the Changes
A man walks into a Birmingham bookshop, buys a volume of poetry, and steps out into the road, where a jazz musician seems momentarily to bring the whole city together. In the second poem in Playing the Changes, the same thing happens, only half the words are redacted. Then the experience is retold as a Petrarchan sonnet; a children's skipping rhyme; an Acknowledgements page; a pastiche of Tristram Shandy...Drawing on the traditions of jazz improvisation and Oulipo, a literary movement where writing arises from extreme formal restriction, Playing the Changes sees Simon Turner decomposing and recomposing one of his own poems in a variety of for…
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Weitere Autoren: Webber, Mark Andrew (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-910139-85-1
- EAN: 9781910139851
- Produktnummer: 29194741
- Verlag: The Emma Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'470 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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