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Xn

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Xn
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carol Jenkins
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:88
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 148
Category/GenrePoetry
ISBN/Barcode 9781922186201
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Puncher and Wattmann
Imprint Puncher and Wattmann
Publication Date 1 September 2013
Publication Country Australia

Description

Xn might be the shortest poem possible between two letters, a mathematical metaphor for poetry, shorthand for a process that takes something specific and transforms it into something more intensely itself. Jenkins' second collection begins pre-big bang, and proceeds, democratically investigating life. Is she mining the everyday for the sake of linguistic high jinks, or hijacking language to celebrate where we're at? Here we find a penchant for the absurd, a playful elucidation of everything from the concept of zero to the history of burnt toast, a subversion of historical methods, road trips and set theory, butter and death. Wry and lucid, wide-ranging and witty, this is exactly what you need to read.