Polyamorous Love Song: 12 (Department of Narrative Studies) - Softcover

Jacob Wren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771660309 ISBN 13: 9781771660303

Publisher: Book*hug Press, 2014

Synopsis

From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live. With a diverse palette of vivid characters - from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of "New Filmmakers" that devises increasingly unexpected sexual scenarios with complete strangers, to a secret society that concocts a virus that only infects those on the political right - Wren's avant-garde Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the 2013 Fence Modern Prize in Prose) will appeal to readers with an interest in the visual arts, theatre, and performance of all types.

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Review:

Praise for Polyamorous Love Song:

Polyamorous Love Song is...surreal, transgressive, and unsettling. It has the capacity to not only deliver itself like a punch to the gut but also leave a lingering sting. - Quill and Quire (Starred review)

The book of your dreams....
- Globe and Mail

At once thoughtful, thrilling, terrifying, comedic and disturbing...
- Cult MTL

Polyamorous Love Song sets up every human being as an artist - oversexed, furry and holding a gun - to play through wicked palindromes of sex performance and political protest. This book notably asks: Are we all pretending? Wren mines the ethical implications of both hidden literature and mass entertainment. Reading it, I wondered why I wasn't more afraid.
- Tamara Faith Berger

Everything Jacob Wren touches interests me, excites me - he's both sophisticated and innocent in attitude - he's a kind of wise old man and open-hearted lover. With his vivacious ideas, word play, and the serious and inane served up on a plate - Wren lifts my spirits, intellectual and other, because to know he's writing so beautifully in this mad, sad world is a wonderful thing.
- Lynne Tilman

About the Author:

Jacob Wren makes literature, performances and exhibitions. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed, POLYAMOROUS LOVE SONG (a finalist for the 2013 Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the 2016 ReLit Award for Fiction, and was named one of The Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books of 2014), and AUTHENTICITY IS A FEELING (BookThug, 2018). His most recent novel RICH AND POOR, was a finalist for the 2016 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. As Co- Artistic Director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created the performances En français comme en anglais, it's easy to criticize, Individualism Was a Mistake, The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information and Every Song I've Ever Written. He travels internationally with alarming frequency and frequently writes about contemporary art. Connect with him on his blog (www.radicalcut.blogspot.com) or on Twitter @everySongIveEve.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1771660309
• ISBN 13: 9781771660303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192