The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose Poems (Salt Modern Poets)

Kennard, Luke

ISBN 10: 1844715485 / ISBN 13: 9781844715480

Published by Salt, 2010

2010. 2nd Edition. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781844715480

Synopsis:

Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos, philosophical tracts and grammar. Unlike a toboggan of wolves, The Solex Brothers explores the fate of the individual – albeit a rather feeble individual – and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour; cherishing its influences with a poststructuralist’s vertical rigour; and, at times, chasing its tail with a schoolboy’s reductive snigger. Like a toboggan of wolves who are beginning to regret having set-upon and eaten their driver, the world of “The Solex Brothers” is funny, sad and irretrievably lost

About the Author:

Luke Kennard is the author of four volumes of poetry and two pamphlets. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Solex Brothers (Redux): And Other Prose ...
Publisher: Salt
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd Edition