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Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem
- Title
- Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem / Emily Izsak.
- Author
- Izsak, Emily
- Publication
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, [2017]
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-4304 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 83 pages : illustration; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem occurs over a series of train rides between Toronto and London, Ontario. Each segment of the poem, marked by a time stamp and train number, occupies one train ride. Jack Spicer's concept of serial poetry combines with Charles Olson's "projective verse" in a dynamic that resembles the momentum of a train as it carries the poetry speaker toward and away from her love interest. Informed by Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, and Allen Ginsberg whose poetry incorporated the train as a phallus image into the railway poem tradition, Izsak responds to critiques of a poetic movement she clearly revers with unbridled and surreal female sexuality. It is an unapologetically female addition to a movement that is and should be still in motion."--
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4304
- ISBN
- 9781773240053
- 1773240056
- OCLC
- 968777070
- Author
- Izsak, Emily, author.
- Title
- Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem / Emily Izsak.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4304