This ISA Nice Neighborhood

by Farid Matuk

Poetry. Can identity be pliant and penetrable? Can the speech act be one of attention over intention, can play and fluidity open onto an ethic? THIS ISA NICE NEIGHBORHOOD, Farid Matuk's first full-length collection, says yes. Yes to the rejection of any opposition between politics and aesthetics, between rhetoric and poetics. Yes to vulnerability. Yes to a poetry willing to enact the errors, uncertainties, and tangled complexities of our political,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981522750
• ISBN13: 9780981522753
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Letter Machine Editions
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.