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Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You

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Availability:In StockContributor:Juliana SpahrSeries:Wesleyan PoetryPublish date:11/27/2001Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819565259ISBN-10:819565253UPC:9780819565259Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.78 x 4.08 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC1PQTS9H3

This book of "documentary poetics" is by an important up and coming female experimentalist.

Juliana Spahr uses details to explore Hawai'i's politics of location and her own place in it as an outsider: a hard-core show where the singer shouts out "fuck you-aloha-I love you" over and over; the pidgin word 'da kine;' native Hawaiian rights to gathering; Palolo stream; the similarities and differences between hotel rooms and conference rooms; and acrobats at a Las Vegas-style floor show in Waikiki. Spahr is attentive to specifics and she draws from documentary poetics in these five interconnected poems that move between lyricism, rhythmic repetition, and explanatory prose. Conceptually provocative and yet moving at the same time, Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You demands reading and re-reading.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819565259ISBN-10:819565253UPC:9780819565259Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.78 x 4.08 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC1PQTS9H3

JULIANA SPAHR is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu, and editor of the journal Chain. She is also the author of Response (1996), winner of the National Poetry Series Award and Reading Anarchies: Radical Experimentalism in Twentieth-Century American Literature (1999).


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Juliana Spahr

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