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Sputnik’s Cousin

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Sputnik’s Cousin

SKU: 9781921924675 Category: Product ID: 219848

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Title: Sputnik’s Cousin
Author: MACCARTER KENT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2014
Imprint: Transit Lounge Publishing
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active


The poems and non-fiction collected in Sputnik’s Cousin rinse, relent and tumble in the slipstream of modernity. The indefatigable nature of objects – how they reverberate in the proximity of others and become polished from anachronistic histories retold – hum a progress charged by humanity’s witless pursuit of technology and civility. MacCarter’s poetry is a menagerie of Rube Goldberg contraptions; invoking idiom, definition, and refraction while harnessing the slope, speed and gravity of language to set in motion these absurdist machines. A light switch is turned off, but not by means of a flick: it took fracking in Russia, the building of a sand castle and a monastic jeep to do so. These are maximalist poems whose syntax is coerced through yoga … poems of humour, warning and visceral sound.


ISBN: 9781921924675
Weight: 350gr
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm

Additional information

Weight 350 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 mm