Happy Avatar

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Happy Avatar
Authors and Contributors      By (author) D. J. Huppatz
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:72
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 150
Category/GenrePoetry
ISBN/Barcode 9781922186898
ClassificationsDewey:821.4
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Puncher and Wattmann
Imprint Puncher and Wattmann
Publication Date 1 January 2016
Publication Country Australia

Description

When William Blake meets Hello Kitty there's bound to be sparks. Happy Avatar transports the reader into a mingled reality of sampled voices, incongruous idioms and enchanting distractions. Bite-sized mashups from celebrity gossip sites, click-bait headlines, intimate messages and serious socio-political analysis mix with Shakespearean form and Biblical rhythms. While revelling in the shiny tackiness of a ceaseless information stream, Happy Avatar, offers its readers unsettling meditations on the problem of infinite regress, the crisis of capitalist accumulation and climate change. Formally provocative and absurdly intelligent, D.J. Huppatz.s first major collection challenges us to reconsider poetry's place in 21st Century life.