pet radish, shrunken, the

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Publication Year:
2015

ISBN-13: 9781771661430

In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board.<br><br><i>the pet radish, shrunken</i>, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, quirky, and clear-seeing collection speaks in a range of styles and voices: From a military convoy of turtles, to a Kafkaesque conversation with a houseful, to the dissection of a fruit machine, Pirie offers oulipo found speech as it integrates and disintegrates, plays with and tumbles through language.<br><br>Earning comparisons to Jenny Sampirisi's <i>Croak</i> and Leigh Kostilidis's <i>Hypotheticals</i> for their shared sense of linguistic playfulness and curiosity, <i>the pet radish, shrunken</i> will appeal to exploring minds who are ready to question language, society, and self while not minding a taint of grief and comedy that necessarily creeps in around the edges.