Sonnet's Shakespeare

Sonnet's Shakespeare
Author :
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780771073090
ISBN-13 : 0771073097
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sonnet's Shakespeare by : Sonnet L'Abbe

Download or read book Sonnet's Shakespeare written by Sonnet L'Abbe and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé returns with her third collection, in which a mixed-race woman decomposes her inheritance of Shakespeare by breaking open the sonnet and inventing an entirely new poetic form. DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE FINALIST RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD FINALIST How can poetry grapple with how some cultures assume the place of others? How can English-speaking writers use the English language to challenge the legacy of colonial literary values? In Sonnet's Shakespeare, one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use "the master's tools" on the Bard's "house," attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her pysche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "aggrocultured" Shakespearean sonnet--displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced. L'Abbé invented the process of Sonnet's Shakespeare to find a way to sing from a body that knows both oppression and privilege. She uses the procedural techniques of Oulipian constraint and erasure poetries to harness the raw energies of her hyperconfessional, trauma-forged lyric voice. This is an artist's magnum opus and mixed-race girlboy's diary; the voice of a settler on stolen Indigenous territories, a sexual assault survivor, a lover of Sylvia Plath and Public Enemy. Touching on such themes as gender identity, pop music, nationhood, video games, and the search for interracial love, this book is a poetic achievement of undeniable scope and significance.


Sonnet's Shakespeare Related Books

Sonnet's Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Sonnet L'Abbe
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé returns with her third collection, in which a mixed-race woman decomposes her inheritance of Shakespe
You Kiss by th' Book
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Gary Soto
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-22 - Publisher: Chronicle Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inspired by Shakespeare, an award-winning poet creates “smart, surprising and affecting [poetry] . . . Poems that are easy to read and difficult to forget”
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)
Language: en
Pages: 441
Authors: Stephen Greenblatt
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-03 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th annivers
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
Language: en
Pages: 530
Authors: Don Paterson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-19 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Language: en
Pages: 768
Authors: William Shakespeare
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference