Body Language - Softcover

Cunningham, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977901971 ISBN 13: 9780977901975

Publisher: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008

Synopsis

Poetry. BODY LANGUAGE, a collection of prose poetry unique both in content and design, is actually two books--"Primer" and "Body"--bound "tete-beche" (sometimes called a "flip book," as it has two front covers). Together the books form a diptych investigating the body in language and language in the body-"a provocative, loopic continuum," says Lisa Russ Spaar, "in which prose poems "defining" body parts (The Spleen, The Pituitary Gland, The Pimple, The Thumb) mesh with an abecedarium/cipher concerning topics as various as fate, reality, and phenomenology. With its trope of clue-like instruction and unique, flip-book embodiment, BODY LANGUAGE creates a kind of hybrid detective f(r)iction, an intrepid mash-up of high and low cultures in which the reader is as likely to encounter Rilke and Proto-Sinaitic inscription as Lacan, Film Noir, The Three Stooges, cell phones, higher mathematics, binary thought, and Coyote and Road Runner cartoons."

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Cunningham is the author of two books of poetry, Body Language and 80 Beetles, as well as two chapbooks, Second Story and nightlightnight. He is a graduate of the UVA MFA program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tarpaulin Sky Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0977901971
• ISBN 13: 9780977901975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136