Jennifer Firestone

Broschiertes Buch

Holiday

Beschreibung

While ostensibly documenting a European vacation, Holiday interrogates historical narratives and artistic representations, examining patriarchal and nepotistic political and religious connections that are repackaged into the souvenir experience. From stripped reportage to dream fragments, Holiday positions the "traveller" in a hyperconscious lens that undermines conventional notions about the meaning of a holiday. Beneath the careful recording of art, food, and guidebooks' "most visited sites" are reverberations of war and power exposing the traveller's consumer culpability and the role of choice in demarcating and memorializing personal and historical trajectories.

Autor

Jennifer Firestone is the author of Waves, an investigation of death and death-language forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, which is part of a longer work entitled Gates & Fields. Her chapbooks from Flashes (2006), an excerpt from a long prose poem exploring money, war and urban culture, and snapshot (2004), which is a selection from her book Holiday, are both published by Sona Books. Her work has appeared innumerous journals, including How2, 14 Hills, 580 Split, Boog City, MIPOesias, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Dusie and Moria. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their infant twins. She is Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College at the New School University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9781905700530
• ISBN-10: 1905700539
• Artikelnr.: 23356706