CURIO
Grotesques & Satires From the Electronic Age
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Tired of the same old Can Lit? Had your fill of The Beautiful Poetry? You're not alone. BookThug is pleased to re-present West Coast poet Elizabeth Bachinsky's first full-length collection of poems, Curio: Grotesques and Satires FromThe Electronic Age. In this second edition, with a new introduction by K. Silem Mohammad, you can plunge into a series of poetic games to witness Antonin Artaud climb a beanstalk and eat his lover's foot as his most torrid affair is revealed in letters; fear the Spy Cam's omniscient eye; test your paranoiac tendencies as an alien abductee; watch as The Waste Land and The River Merchant's Wife hit the blender; rejoice in poems without people, poems without authors and poems with no audience. Informed by the writings of the 20th Century's (and even the 21st Century's!) most eclectic authors, Curio is quirky and sly -- an ironic mixture simultaneously engaged with formal innovation and the Retro Avant Garde that heralded the arrival of a brave new poet.
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"Bachinsky writes for us, the inheritors of a debased estate in which the last elegiac strains are heard chiefly as canned schmaltz piped into the corridors." -K. Silem Mohammad
"The range of diction in these poems is wild, the diversity of influence deliciously idiosyncratic. How often have we seen John Milton and Lisa Robertson acknowledged between the same covers? Bachinsky's willingness to range fearlessly through history sets her writing apart-or at least, places it in the company of equally daring poets like Robertson, Maine's Jennifer Moxley, and Eliot himself." -Fieldstone Review
"Bachinsky proves herself to be a versatile, skilled poet unafraid to shake things up." -The Globe and Mail
"Her work can straddle both sides: formal and experimental, personal and mathematical, with a keen ear for the erotically ridiculous." -The Globe and Mail
"Through anagram, pillage, plunder and other structural plays, Curio enacts a wonderful revenge on expectation." -Canadian Literature
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