Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play
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Product Details
Author:
Jake Kennedy
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Publisher:
Book*hug Press (April 1, 2015)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781771660952
ISBN-10:
1771660953
Dimensions:
5" x 7.5" x 0.3"
Case Pack:
40
File:
Eloquence-IPG_05022026_P10037462_onix30-20260502.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$18.00
As low as:
$15.48
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Weight:
4.48oz
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Book*hug Press
Overview
In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad 'unmaking,' so similar in nature to his own haunting experience, became the inspiration for Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play, a collection of experimental poetry that explores the dynamic, if often unsettling, relationship between making and unmaking, bliss and pain, utterance and silence.
As diverse in form as they are in artistic/cultural references, the poems of Merz Structure No. 2 invoke an endless bounty of characters: the poet remembers Harold Ramis; Kafka summons the courage to tell his dad where to go; another tornado razes another small town; Yorick returns to run balls-out into the sea; Louise Bourgeois smashes a tea cup against one of her sculptures.
Readers who connect with Phil Hall's artistic investigations in Killdeer and Lisa Robertson's clear-eyed take on humanity in Magenta Soul Whip will enjoy Kennedy's feeling examination of loss in Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play.
As diverse in form as they are in artistic/cultural references, the poems of Merz Structure No. 2 invoke an endless bounty of characters: the poet remembers Harold Ramis; Kafka summons the courage to tell his dad where to go; another tornado razes another small town; Yorick returns to run balls-out into the sea; Louise Bourgeois smashes a tea cup against one of her sculptures.
Readers who connect with Phil Hall's artistic investigations in Killdeer and Lisa Robertson's clear-eyed take on humanity in Magenta Soul Whip will enjoy Kennedy's feeling examination of loss in Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play.
