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E-book Styling Sagaciousness : Oh Great No!

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During the Paris pandemic confinement period of 2020, the dread of viral death was in the air. Confined to the indoors, I took the hint and finished in May my second (and, I think, last) book of drôle poetry called Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! Drollness being essential to a good life, I fashioned Styling Sa-gaciousness as a death farce epic poem divided into seven major sections. For me, its Arcadian bon délire cheekiness possesses a silliness that constitutes precisely its lethal seriousness. Styling Sagaciousness turned my sex farce epic poem book Destroyer of Naivetés, released in 2015 by punctum books, on its head and blackened it with negated scopophilia. My inten-tion is that with these two pseudo-philosophical poetry books I will have addressed Eros and Thanatos and their connection sufficiently, and, after having extensively explored these themes in the palimpsest promiscuity of my visual art, give them a rest. If that is possible. Ideally, my two punctum poetry books should be regarded as a pair, and read beginning with the 2015 book Destroyer of Naivetés. The mythopoeic mélange of Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! is intended as a complicated forensic fairy-tale, suit-able for Nô theater, which keeps slipping in and out of idiosyncratic narration. That ghostly appearance–disappearance act turns on the nub of our narcissism concerning our death; that strange, incurable and deeply irrational affliction we all share. Putting identity aside, it tests the limits of form and stretches the bounds of meaning by recasting our experiences of encoun-tering our self as the sumptuous physicality of total negation. As such, Styling Sagaciousness delivers to us all an airy irrational punch of needed nonsensical negation by tying together insou-ciant informality with a visceral camp irony: at turns hip and flamboyant and morally outrageous. That way Styling Sagacious-ness provides us the chance to do the counter-fearful thing, to look at our fear of negation so that such an effort might release us from fear’s irrational grip, so we will enjoy ephemeral life all the more. At least for the fleeting moment. But also there is in Styling Sagaciousness an awareness of the impertinent splendor of the tranquility of death and decomposition, which makes it seem faintly heroic in face of death’s inexorability and putrid ignobility.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

821 NEC s

Penerbit

New York : Punctum books., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

147 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781685710675

Klasifikasi

821

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

English Poetry

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