The Daily Glance
Susan Holbrook's Joy Is So Exhausting explores what language can do from a variety of angles. She uses found language, language sound changes, and homophonic translations. For example, her poem "to" Lorca's "Falseta" starts with this:
Yeah, pert'near Gitanes
!¡¡!!¡¡
Yaya pert'near
Good girls don't inhale ~
No, no, give me more Crisco
The other poems in the book are just as playful, so much so that it feels like you always have to be ready for the side step in Holbrook's work. Essentially, she makes us focus on language closely just to follow where she is going. To me, that process is more important than actually getting somewhere.
There are people who only cry in private and people who only cry in public.
People who clean their mouse regularly and people who think Something's
wrong with my mouse over and over.
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You like an epiphany or you like a surprise.
You are a binary thinker or you are and you aren't.
Susan Holbrook's Joy Is So Exhausting explores what language can do from a variety of angles. She uses found language, language sound changes, and homophonic translations. For example, her poem "to" Lorca's "Falseta" starts with this:
Yeah, pert'near Gitanes
!¡¡!!¡¡
Yaya pert'near
Good girls don't inhale ~
No, no, give me more Crisco
The other poems in the book are just as playful, so much so that it feels like you always have to be ready for the side step in Holbrook's work. Essentially, she makes us focus on language closely just to follow where she is going. To me, that process is more important than actually getting somewhere.
There are people who only cry in private and people who only cry in public.
People who clean their mouse regularly and people who think Something's
wrong with my mouse over and over.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
You like an epiphany or you like a surprise.
You are a binary thinker or you are and you aren't.
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