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Availability:In StockContributor:Rupert M. LoydellTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:9/15/2009Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781848610583ISBN-10:1848610580UPC:9781848610583Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.177Product ID:SCWRJHA1D5

Boombox is Rupert M. Loydell's third collection with Shearsman, and further demonstrates the author's range of styles and startling application of collage and montage techniques to poetry.

"Somewhere among the manifestos of the century just past, there is a line which reads there is nothing more marvelous than a plate on a table, and on that plate a loaf of bread. Earth air fire and water, made and remade and made again, by and not by human hands. Is it true? Will '[t]his town / ... simply become somewhere [we] used to live'? Don't believe that simply for a moment. The 'heartbeat is a bell / that chimes on the hour.' We 'shiver in the imaginary wind.' Imaginary? 'In Guinness terms it's all fluid dynamics / and computer hum, the chaotic crackle ... The CD skips in the jukebox to make / the best dance loop [we] ever heard.' His 'I' is a 'we', as well as an 'I', if you hadn't noticed. It's an interesting place, Loydell's marvelous quotidian. Somewhere worth living while we can. You can eat these poems. You don't even have to put butter on them." -John Bloomberg-Rissman

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Shearsman BooksISBN-13:9781848610583ISBN-10:1848610580UPC:9781848610583Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.177Product ID:SCWRJHA1D5
Loydell, Rupert M.: - Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Writing and Journalism at Falmouth University, the editor of Stride magazine, contributing editor to International Times and a writer and abstract artist. His many books of poetry include Dear Mary, A Confusion of Marys, The Return of the Man Who Has Everything, Wildlife and Ballads of the Alone, all published by Shearsman, who also published Encouraging Signs, a book of essays, articles and interviews. In addition to several collaborative publications, he edited Smartarse and co-edited Yesterday's Music Today for Knives Forks & Spoons Press, From Hepworth's Garden Out: poems about painters and St. Ives for Shearsman, and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh: manifestos and unmanifestos for Salt. His critical writing has appeared in Punk & Post-Punk (where he is on the editorial board), Journal of Writing and Creative Practice, New Writing, English, Text, Axon, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, Musicology Research, Revenant, The Quint: an interdisciplinary journal from the north and Journal of Visual Art Practice. He also he has contributed chapters to Brian Eno. Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (Routledge, 2021) and Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Publisher: Shearsman Books

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