The Cheap Seats

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9668612-0-4
Verlag: Washington State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 66 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 118 g

n The Cheap Seats, Scott Poole creates an alternative universe out of the elements of our familiar one, but the stranger and more outrageous his world becomes, the more we recognize it as home. Is his art Cubist? Surrealist? Post-modern? It’s all of these and more, including doses of both Lewis Carroll and classic American deadpan comedy. There’s innocence here, and it’s always foxy. His style, while projecting playfulness, acts as a series of surgical strikes, that precise. By means of a powerful creative will and endless inventiveness, Poole characteristically directs language, perception, and imagination where they are not accustomed to go. He works to rinse with a concentrated astringent our interface with ourselves and our world.

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Scott Poole is the author of one other book of poetry, Hiding from Salesmen. He is the resident poet of Oregon Public Broadcasting's monthly show "Live Wire!" and the director of Wordstock, Portland's Annual Festival of the Book. He lives in Vancouver, Washington.