Davie Street Translations
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Rating | : | 4.56 (823 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0889226830 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-05-17 |
Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorDaniel Zomparelli is the editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine. He writes for several magazines in Vancouver.. He is the program coordinator for the Megaphone Magazine Community Creative Writing Program that offers free creative writing classes for low-income and homeless people
He writes for several magazines in Vancouver.. He is the program coordinator for the Megaphone Magazine Community Creative Writing Program that offers free creative writing classes for low-income and homeless people. Daniel Zomparelli is the editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine
On this poetic street that is a universe, we turn away from violence, dance fight, or turn it into a musical / West Side-like.”With poetic tributes to his Vancouver idols Billeh Nickerson, George Stanley and Michael V. To the street that is a village, Daniel Zomparelli conveys a liveliness and wit that rhetorically towel-flicks its way from the sardonic bathhouse banter of ancient Rome to the cinematic musical machismo of the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, with each poem translating” another chapter in his documentary of gay male culture in Vancouver.To the tune of mononymous deities Beyoncé, Madonna, Barbra, and Gaga, this home-brewed Catullus flirts with the very concept of translation,” not only representing the movement and conversion of event, time, and idea to the written word, but also deploying a crafty methodology that in the style of Robin Bla