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008			200812s2019 -cn g 000 p eng
020			_a9781554201525 _q(pbk.)
040			_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _beng _cUTB _dUTB
084			_aPR9199.4 FAR 2019
100	1		_aFarr, Roger, _d1970- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aI am city but soon I shan't be / _cRoger Farr.
246	3		_aI am city but soon I shall not be
260			_aCanada : _bNew Star Books Ltd., _c2019.
300			_a100 pages ; _c21 cm.
500			_aA poem.
520			_a"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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCanadian poetry _y21st century.
650		0	_aPoetry.
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998			_eBook _s901488 : 016007(H) c.1 UTB _xDonated by High Commission of Canada to Brunei Darussalam
999			_c19862 _d19862