(Yawn) Standard woke deconstruction of Western literature (and history). Don't bother. ebook
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Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbé 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 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. Sonnets Shakespeare
I really admire this book, so much that I wrote a short essay on one of its poems:
https://howapoemmoves.wordpress.com/2... ebook I bow to L'Abbé's poetic mastery. Not only are these poems astounding on an individual level, but the collection also has a sense of narrative and progression of time that gives the poems an additional depth. From critiquing colonial structures to sharing glimpses into the personal to adding a touch of humour to documenting events that have happened, Sonnet's Shakespeare contains infinite depth and deserves infinite love. ebook Such a delight to read and a workout for the tongue as well! This is the fun kind of poetry you have to read aloud! ebook Here's how you talk back to the canon! Each poem had me surprised and delighted to see how Sonnet would superimpose her own take of the world today. ebook L’Abbé’s sonnets glimmer in their take-down of oppressive structures, vitalised by musicality and ingenuity—in both thematic and linguistic veins. It is impossible to touch on every thread, every story paralleled by another story, every layered moment. Poems are sometimes meditative and enriched by tense depictions of land or playful commentaries on technology. Others feel like a caress, contained in moments of family and tenderness, in sweet homages to dear friends. The collection is intimate, at times brutally honest, but also always a map for our own imaginative readings. ebook