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Deep Code
John Coletti
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Description for Deep Code
Paperback. Deep Code explores "side language," as a subset of other languages, whether slang or metaphor, to both communicate and obfuscate. Series: City Lights Spotlight. Num Pages: 93 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 129.
Combining a bent lyric perception with a fragmentation redolent of French cubism, Coletti portrays contemporary urban experience, from power relations and personal loss to nights among city dwellers recording their convivial distress, glad and dissolute at once. Part teddy bear fleeing the cultish outlines of the American northwest, part Apollinaire in Brooklyn, Coletti culls his materials from the ether and assembles them into resonant structures at once intensely personal and strangely universal--a little outrageous--both confusingly lovely and apt in their ungainliness. Lines like "I'm nearly home is what everyone says" and "triceratops & the bad glue / that made us ... Read more
Combining a bent lyric perception with a fragmentation redolent of French cubism, Coletti portrays contemporary urban experience, from power relations and personal loss to nights among city dwellers recording their convivial distress, glad and dissolute at once. Part teddy bear fleeing the cultish outlines of the American northwest, part Apollinaire in Brooklyn, Coletti culls his materials from the ether and assembles them into resonant structures at once intensely personal and strangely universal--a little outrageous--both confusingly lovely and apt in their ungainliness. Lines like "I'm nearly home is what everyone says" and "triceratops & the bad glue / that made us ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
93
Condition
New
Series
City Lights Spotlight
Number of Pages
93
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872866492
SKU
V9780872866492
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About John Coletti
John Coletti is the author of the book Mum Halo (2010) and the chapbooks Same Enemy Rainbow (2008) and Physical Kind (2005). With Anselm Berrigan, he is the author of the limited edition Skasers (2012). As an undergraduate at Columbia University, he studied poetry with Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett. He has served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter ... Read more
Reviews for Deep Code
"Disjunction and parataxis are at a premium here, each line its own thing, sometimes even each word ... Or rather, almost its own thing, because after all there remains a wisp of a rhythm that orients each line to the others, however loosely-a last hint of innate sensibility ... It would take something like the physics that describes the path ... Read more