Nikki Reimer

DOWNVERSE (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this quick-witted collection of poems, Nikki Reimer mines the language of new media - hashtags, YouTube comments, Twitter updates - to defamiliarize the very substance of modern life: the Ingram CoreSource of media-enforced ideals that barrage our newsfeeds, daily commutes to #work, and (mostly online) excursions to the (Apple) store. #nuffsaid
DOWNVERSE soothes the oversaturated reader. A natural translator, Reimer writes for anyone who has felt overwhelmed by the phrase "never read the comments." Reimer has read all of the comments; paying close attention to musicality and her own poetic process, she guides found text into whiplike stanzas with original typos intact.
Conscious of its birthplace, DOWNVERSE crafts both an ode to and an elegy for Vancouver's middle-class, Gen-Y, millennial angst, and even Vancouver itself - not the physical place, but rather the idea of #Vancouver, presented through images plastered over billboards and stamped into Special Edition footwear. In its shifty way, Reimer's text alternates between the voices of Vancouver's youth- and consumer-driven populace, asking the question, "What happens when The Market is the Way, the Truth, and the Life?"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781772015669
• Artikelnr.: 67311098

Autorenporträt

Nikki Reimer writes poetry, non-fiction, and criticism, organizes in the community, yells on the internet, and makes digital art. Her first book of poetry, [sic] (Frontenac House, 2010), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has published three chapbooks: that stays news (Nomados Press, 2011), haute action material (Heavy Industries, 2011), and fist things first (Wrinkle Press, 2009). Her work has also been shortlisted for the Lit POP Award and the PRISM International Creative Non-Fiction Contest. She is a member of the Writer's Guild of Alberta and a founding co-director of the Chris Reimer Legacy Fund Society.