Fuck America: sonnets

Fuck America: Sonnets is a collection of fifty poems, one for each US state in alphabetical order. Each poem consists of fourteen lines in the style of a sonnet, each of them repeating the word "Fuck" followed by a name or word that the author deems important or representative of the state...

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Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] Fryup Publishing [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Anti-Sonnets
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Zusammenfassung:Fuck America: Sonnets is a collection of fifty poems, one for each US state in alphabetical order. Each poem consists of fourteen lines in the style of a sonnet, each of them repeating the word "Fuck" followed by a name or word that the author deems important or representative of the state. These usually include important cultural figures like artists, authors, or musicians but also names of well-known places, and references to popular culture and consumerism. By this, Fuck America: Sonnets creates an inventory of cultural markers and "exposes the stereotypes that make America simultaneously so alluring and appalling," the author writes in the blurb on Lulu, while at the same time "ask[ing] if we are all implicit in perpetuating them." The book also makes explicit use of the possibilities offered by print-on-demand platforms as it comes in a choice of fourteen different covers, each depicting a different icon of American popular culture, including Jasper Johns’ Flag, William Perry ("the Refrigerator"), Elvis, Warhol, Aretha, Bodacious, Fatburger, Tonya Harding, Mountain Dew, ZZ Top, Anna Nicole, L’il Wayne, Key Lime Pie, and Bridget The Midget. Thus, this fourteen-part cover series forms a sonnet itself.
Beschreibung:50 ungezählte Seiten
ISBN:9781794767669