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Benjamin Sonnets, The

by (author) Clint Burnham

Publisher
Book*hug Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897388365
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $18.00

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Description

The Benjamin Sonnets are a series of poems created through a process of 'homophonic' translation from German writings by Walter Benjamin. They are ridiculous, but only in the sense that things unexpected and wonderful can be ridiculous.

About the author

Clint Burnham is widely published as a critical theorist, poet, and author of books on digital culture. He is the author of book-length studies of Steve McCaffery and Fredric Jameson, a novel titled Smoke Show (2005), and several books of poetry, including The Benjamin Sonnets (2009). His most recent critical book is The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012). His most recent art writing includes a catalogue essay on Canadian photographer Kelly Wood; an essay on Edward Burtynsky in the c Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture collection from McGill-Queens. During a residency at the Urban Subjects Collective in Vienna in 2014–15, he wrote books on Slavoj Žižek and digital culture, and on Fredric Jameson and Wolf of Wall Street.Burnham is an associate member of the SFU Department of Geography and a member of SFU’s Centre for Global Political Economy. He is a founding member of the Vancouver Lacan Salon.

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