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There's no place like the internet in springtime / Erik Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 80 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781776561957
  • 1776561953
Other title:
  • Theres no place like the internet in springtime
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9699 .K466 2018
Summary: Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free verse, Erik Kennedy’s first collection should climb up all the right charts: his phrases can go anywhere, then come back, and he has figured out how to sound both trustworthy and nonplussed, both giddy and humble, in the same breath. Sometimes he impersonates spiny lobsters; sometimes he’s a socialist chambered nautilus. Sometimes he’s our best guide to the globe-trotting ridiculous. And sometimes (start with ‘Mailing in a Form Because There’s No Online Form’) he’s the ‘un-flick-off-able’, so-wrong-he’s-just-right guide to the way we live now.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Hakeke Street Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 821 KEN Available T00807112
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Wait, am I thinking of the Internet? Oh, maybe not, but what I'm thinking of is desperate and very, very like it. Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free verse, Erik Kennedy's first collection should climb up all the right charts: his phrases can go anywhere, then come back, and he has figured out how to sound both trustworthy and nonplussed, both giddy and humble, in the same breath. Sometimes he impersonates spiny lobsters; sometimes he's a socialist chambered nautilus. Sometimes he's our best guide to the globe-trotting ridiculous. And sometimes (start with `Mailing in a Form Because There's No Online Form') he's the `un-flick-off-able', so-wrong-he's-just-right guide to the way we live now. -Steph Burt Erik Kennedy, steeped in his craft, knows his poetic ropes and that is why his book is a constant delight. -James Norcliffe

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Layering comedy over insight over rue and pathos over comedy, mixing its flexible couplets with beautifully spiky free verse, Erik Kennedy’s first collection should climb up all the right charts: his phrases can go anywhere, then come back, and he has figured out how to sound both trustworthy and nonplussed, both giddy and humble, in the same breath. Sometimes he impersonates spiny lobsters; sometimes he’s a socialist chambered nautilus. Sometimes he’s our best guide to the globe-trotting ridiculous. And sometimes (start with ‘Mailing in a Form Because There’s No Online Form’) he’s the ‘un-flick-off-able’, so-wrong-he’s-just-right guide to the way we live now.

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