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20240821113821.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200812s2019 -cn g 000 p eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781554201525 |
| Qualifying information |
(pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Universiti Teknologi Brunei |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
UTB |
| Modifying agency |
UTB |
| 084 ## - BOOK Call Number |
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| Classification number |
PR9199.4 FAR 2019 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Farr, Roger, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1970- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
I am city but soon I shan't be / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Roger Farr. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
I am city but soon I shall not be |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Canada : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
New Star Books Ltd., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
100 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
A poem. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Hailed by the Call as I stepped across Venables at Clark following a transverse line like all the other commodities circulating aimlessly I drifted along corrugated steel walls sun burning every body every building every form cash exploding from crowns of distant towers occupied by the rentiers in this haemopolis of arteries and conduits branching out centrifugally." At some point in the last decade, the "unreal cities" of Modernity became post-Real. Roger Farr's I Am a City Still But Soon I Shan't Be metabolizes the modernist long poem in order to provide a psychogeographical I-witness account of this transformation. In nine Cantos, or spheres of hell, Farr moves impossibly between major and minor cities, crossing and re-crossing zones, edging boundaries, charting dreamscapes, always drifting, without ever becoming a flaneur. Vancouver stars in "pre-conceptual" found footage from 1973, which is actually a dream of the future. New York is an "elegant incubator" for the new avant-gardes, who are preparing for another civil war. Berlin is a nightclub, or a mall, that "kettles" its negations. Nanaimo is a necropolis seen through a lens held by the hand of a dead poet. Meanwhile a statue of Artemis explodes from the streets in Siracusa, setting off a riot during the 2010 Olympics. Urban streams, flows of capital, and other bodily fluids run the course of the tour. But there is no outside to Room 514 in the Patricia Hotel. In her review in Canadian Literature of Farr's last book, the Livesay-nominated IKMQ (2012), Melissa Dalgleish observes that "Farr's I is particularly complex." Readers of I Am a City Still But Soon I Shan't Be might come to recognize such lyric complexity as a shared condition of life in the "post-human cities" from which we chart our lines of flight."-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Canadian poetry |
| Chronological subdivision |
21st century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Poetry. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Local Classification |
| Koha item type |
Canadian Corner Collection |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
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| Internal field |
Book |
| CC (RLIN) |
901488 : 016007(H) c.1 UTB |
| Internal field |
Donated by High Commission of Canada to Brunei Darussalam |
