Don Byrd

Broschiertes Buch

The Great Dimestore Centennial

Beschreibung

Poetry. THE GREAT DIMESTORE CENTENNIAL is a guide book to the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, seven long solos in a jam session with the dead, an answer to the four great philosophic questions of Immanuel Kant, the song of a barbaric horde, an eavesdropping at the borders of contempory history, an account of an apocalyptic disco...And the presiding beings are Beethoven, Napoleon, Sousa, Frank Woolworth, Buddy Bolden, Charlie Parker, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. "This powerful act of language is at once a celebration and a moan of display. Its theme is the advent of the 'Information Society,' and its roots are in both the Western Intellectual traditions and American forms of life"--Charles Stein.

Autor

Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory. His chapbook, Technics of Travel, was published by Zealot-Tansy press in 1984. His first book-length poem, Aesop's Garden, was published by North Atlantic in Plainfied, Vermont, and his second book-length poem, The Great Dimestore Centennial, was published by Station Hill. Byrd was a frequent contributor to Chris Funkhouser's "Descriptions of an Imaginary University" under the pseudonym "Thus, Albert or Hubert." His Charles Olson's Maximus is published by Southern Illinois University Press and his important The Poetics of the Common Knowledge is published by SUNY University Press. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad's Encyclopedia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Station Hill Press
• Seitenzahl: 169
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781581770698
• ISBN-10: 1581770693
• Artikelnr.: 21891769