Your Brain Cells Sing When They Die
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Eyewear Publishing
Published:11th Nov '21
Should be back in stock very soon
Carina Hart's debut collection is a work of surreal satire probing how bureaucracy and administrative language shape modern life.
Love letters and suicide notes are recast as office forms and memos; individual feeling collides with collective machinery through images of beehives and the aisles of Ikea. With dark irony and clinical precision, Hart turns the drab structures of everyday existence - paperwork, systems, consumer spaces - into something strange, funny and unsettling.
A sharp, inventive first book about the language that manages us and the human voices that leak through it.
"Your Brain Cells Sing When They Die simply must be read. This is absolutely cutting-edge poetry, in which the compressive absurdities of late capitalism and the actual living conditions of the lyric imagination, from the understated evils of canned tiger soup to the need to rethink the sweet old metaphor of the beehive, take shape via chapters and individual pieces so well-formed as to offer accessible and profound disturbance. This is energetic stuff, brilliant at discerning traps and potential. Nothing is so ordinary as to escape reconsideration, even ‘[…] dining / chairs of brute bare / wood, angling your body in / the shape of a / lightning bolt.’ "
-- - Vahni Capildeo"The 'publicness' of many of these poems gives them something pretty unique, which combines really tightly with the formal choices and a register of language not often found in poems. As a first collection it's a really exciting way to arrive."
-- - Matthew WeISBN: 9781913606909
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80 pages