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edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Jul 2014
ISBN:9781554200832
publisher: New Star Books

Posh Lust

by Louis Cabri

tagged: canadian
Description

Posh Lust is about poetry that is everywhere findable, provided the bits of "everywhere" are words and provided this life is lettered. People study poetry and some read it. Poetry is a pinnacle art — as in "a small ornamental turret" — even when it's a drunk imaginary communist, or just a drunk imaginary. Kitsch makes the serious art of poetry bearable, so that poetry may become a situation where one is entertained by many an aspirational boner or becuntment in the literary field. In Posh Lust a reader may find, among the 17 poems in each of the 4 sections (68 poems in all): a contemporary answer to "The Owl and the Pussycat," a hidden reworking of the Nixon tapes' anticipated visit by Allen Ginsberg, a cheeky idées reçues rendition of the great Guillaume Apollinaire, Bob Ross folded upon Ezra Pound on Chinese credit as Our Man in Havana, an anthem to letters that neither look nor sound like other letters, a treatment of the noises bursting from beneath letters as "9/11" remade for a B-movie horror film, Olsonian rhetoric cartooned in Walmart, repeal of the Canadian Wheat Board Act, one centred poem, a toastmaster's neoliberal code of ethics, and plenty more, none of this being true — but truthful. Posh Lust is poetry from "below." It follows a failed dialectic (sequitur / non sequitur) — as seriality without numbering, as a chain both of consequences and inconsequence, a chain broken every time it has tied, every time it tried linking together any A and B.

About the Author

Louis Cabri has worked in bicycle rentals and construction, has been a band member (The Hemidrones, Toronto), private tutor, bookstore clerk, festival organizer, secretary for care, editor for Oxfam, programmer for the Southern Africa Education Trust Fund, university student and teacher. With Rob Manery, he founded the “experimental writing group” (Ottawa, 1986–1995), producing literary events that include the ongoing Transparency Machine reading series and hole chapbooks (formerly a magazine). Since 1997, Louis has curated PhillyTalks, a poets’ dialogue/newsletter series. Currently he is writing Poetics of Political Economy, a dissertation, and commutes between Calgary and Philadelphia.

Contributor Notes

Louis Cabri is the name attached to the poetry books Poetryworld and The Mood Embosser. His chapbooks include Poems, Becoming Kitsch, What Is Venice?, — that can't and Curdles. His poetry has appeared in The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, Open Text: Canadian Poetry & Poetics in the 21st Century, Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry, and many other publications and projects. He teaches modern and contemporary poetry, literary theory, and creative writing in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Windsor.

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