Research Catalog

Title

Sonnet's Shakespeare : 154 textile winds, or aggrecultures, or ecolo izations, or / Sonnet l'Abbé.

Author

L'Abbé, Sonnet

Publication

• Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

166 pages :; 23 cm

Summary

• "In the decade since her last collection, the acclaimed poet has placed herself at the forefront of poetic innovation, and she returns with her third collection, a work that breaks open the sonnet and invents an entirely new poetic form. How, in this current political moment, do we grapple with how some cultures "take the place" of others? In Sonnet's Shakespeare, Sonnet L'Abbé decides to explore her own colonizing impulses, turning them on the Bard, intent on "taking his place" in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, the poet works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as territory she will inhabit. Letter by letter, she settles her own language into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by assimilating his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems of Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one "colonized" Shakespearean sonnet--displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced. L'Abbé invented the process to find a way to sing from a body that knows both oppression and privilege. Think Christian Bök's Eunoia meets Claudia Rankine's Citizen--L'Abbé has used the procedural techniques of Oulipian constraint and erasure poetries to harness the raw energies of her hyperconfessional, trauma-forged lyric voice. This is a writer's magnum opus and mixed-race girl's diary; the voice of a settler on aboriginal territory and a sexual assault survivor, the mash-up stylings of a Sylvia Plath and Public Enemy fan. Touching on such themes as gender trouble and video games, Indigenous resurgence, the role of poetry, and the search for interracial love, this book is one that "Shakespeare will forever sub-utter," a poetic achievement of massive scope and historical significance."--
• "In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a defiant act of literary patricide and a feat of painstaking poetic labour, Sonnet L'Abbé works with the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets as a space she will inhabit, as a place of power she will occupy. Letter by letter, she sits her own language down into the white spaces of Shakespeare's poems, until she overwhelms the original text and effectively erases Shakespeare's voice by subsuming his words into hers. In each of the 154 dense new poems in Sonnet's Shakespeare sits one 'aggrocultured' Shakespearean sonnet -- displaced, spoken over, but never entirely silenced." --

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Sonnets (Shakespeare, William)
• 2000-2099
• Canadian poetry > 21st century
• Canadian literature > 21st century
• Canadian poetry > Women authors
• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Contents

Where these poems were written -- Epigraphs -- On the procedure -- Poems (I-CLII) -- Notes on the poems -- Acknowledgements -- Index of entry points.

Call Number

Sc E 20-331

ISBN

• 9780771073090
• 0771073097

OCLC

1114498382

Author

L'Abbé, Sonnet, author.

Title

Sonnet's Shakespeare : 154 textile winds, or aggrecultures, or ecolo izations, or / Sonnet l'Abbé.

Publisher

Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

L'Abbé, Sonnet, author. Sonnet's Shakespeare./ Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, 2018. (CaOONL)20179047833

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-331