Thus Spake the Corpse: Poetry & essays
Author | : Andrei Codrescu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105028779325 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Download or read book Thus Spake the Corpse: Poetry & essays written by Andrei Codrescu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before suspending publication earlier this year, Andrei Codrescu's controversial and notorious anti-literary literary magazine Exquisite Corpse had become a primary site of engaged dialogue among the non, brain-dead everywhere. Founded in the 1980s on the belief that American literature, poetry in particular, is sick from lack of public debate, Codrescu's Corpse took its title from cadavre exquis, a form of collaboration once much practiced in Paris surrealist circles. Rebellion, passion and black humo became the journal's trademarks. Anti-conformist polemic, poetics of assault, high-tone bohemianism, muckraking speculation, seditious attitudinizing and wandering reports from the front lines and back alleys of the culture jammed each issue, framed by elegant columns of top-flight new poetry.