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Divide and Rule
Walid Bitar
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Description for Divide and Rule
Paperback. Acclaimed poet explores the West's violent collision with the Arab world. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
"The empire's missing links are found deep in this poet's ever-astonishing states of multiple consciousness-astutely attuned to the pressured, violent, mass conformities forced upon us-brilliantly formed into poems as ambitious and achieved as any written in the English language today."-Lawrence Joseph In these dramatic monologues, Walid Bitar delivers variations on the theme of power: in politics, in the subjugation and abuse of other cultures, and in our divided selves. Using satire, parody, koan, and riddle, Divide and Rule struggles with the mendacity of language and identity. They have no maps. Ours, I'll redraw. Isn't itself, their neck of the woods, ... Read more
"The empire's missing links are found deep in this poet's ever-astonishing states of multiple consciousness-astutely attuned to the pressured, violent, mass conformities forced upon us-brilliantly formed into poems as ambitious and achieved as any written in the English language today."-Lawrence Joseph In these dramatic monologues, Walid Bitar delivers variations on the theme of power: in politics, in the subjugation and abuse of other cultures, and in our divided selves. Using satire, parody, koan, and riddle, Divide and Rule struggles with the mendacity of language and identity. They have no maps. Ours, I'll redraw. Isn't itself, their neck of the woods, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452547
SKU
V9781552452547
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About Walid Bitar
Walid Bitar was born in Beirut in 1961. He immigrated to Canada in 1969. His previous poetry collections are Maps with Moving Parts (Brick, 1988), 2 Guys on Holy Land (Wesleyan University Press, 1993), Bastardi Puri (The Porcupine's Quill, 2005) and The Empire's Missing Links (Signal Editions/Vehicule, 2008). He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lives in Toronto.
Reviews for Divide and Rule
'Daring, unique, passionate, challenging
everything much of contemporary poetry is not ... Bitar's poems read like final communications from a dying vaudevillian, Morse code tap-danced on the coffin's lid.'
Campbell McGrath 'Bitar's poetry jolts us into a new awareness of the world in which we live, and the poetry we read and write. It is new, both beautiful ... Read more
everything much of contemporary poetry is not ... Bitar's poems read like final communications from a dying vaudevillian, Morse code tap-danced on the coffin's lid.'
Campbell McGrath 'Bitar's poetry jolts us into a new awareness of the world in which we live, and the poetry we read and write. It is new, both beautiful ... Read more