Azmud: An Oily Saga on the Surface of the Wordbath in 5 Expired Generations

Fox, Ken

ISBN 10: 0956817645 / ISBN 13: 9780956817648

Published by Unkant Publishers, 2013

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Synopsis:

Drifting in & out of sense as in an interrupted dream, Azmud is a novel contribution to literary art as political allegory. In each of its five sections - "expired generations" - it attempts to retell the tale of the human psyche, the damage it has undergone under capitalism, in the form of a wandering work tribe searching for value in the spectacular flow of mass communication, on behalf of various severe 'generals' who demand a quota of abstract accumulation. But each of Azmud's industrial adventures in turn become allegories for the act of the text's own creation. But what happens in Azmud? Under orders, a human herd wanders thru the dense miasma of mass communication, hunting for precious ox-ore to stash in their air-ark or fuel their ancient steam engine. A vagrant crew invades the broken dreams of a drowsy industrial tycoon, stealing baskets full of his precious sleep. A homeless hoard combs thru post-industrial litter, searching for burnable rubble. A fake engineer captures a team of lost work-horses & four mammoth protozoans to help boost the energy yield of his toxic currents. A cargo ship collects a crew of stranded industrial outcasts with their precious ark full of ore & its tyrannical captain subjects them to relentless injections & many unwanted adventures.

About the Author: Ken Fox lives and writes in Regina, Canada. From 1996 to 1998 he worked in the South Saskatchewan oil field, conducting environmental tests of drilling mud and sampling subsoil, an experience that informs much of his writing practice. Ken likes to write stuff that smells, and sometimes even looks, like poetry and has published 13 chapbooks of such verbal waste-matter. In 2010 he and life-partner Aleks McHugh co-published Utilitarian Donuts. He is the host & programmer of Naval Aviation In Audio on CJTR Regina Community Radio. Favourite quotes include “Let’s all be prophets!” (Moses) and “Let’s all be composers!” (Zappa).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Azmud: An Oily Saga on the Surface of the ...
Publisher: Unkant Publishers
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good