Biographical note: Giles Goodland was born in Taunton, was educated at the universities of Wales and California, took a D. Phil at Oxford, has published a handful of books of poetry before this, the last of which was A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001). He now works in Oxford as a lexicographer and lives in West London.
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EAN13: 9781844712632 ISBN-10: 184471263X ISBN-13: 9781844712632 Author: Giles Goodland Title: Capital Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Oct-06 Extent: 108pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 7 mm Weight: 162 gms Supplier:Gardners Books Supplier:Ingram Book Group Supplier:Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World
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description/annotation: This book attempts to do something lasting with the dross of our daily lives: the ephemeral and momentary productions of the media, especially newspapers, magazines, and journals, are transformed into poems that draw the connections that have strung us all across recent history, doing much more than the word ‘collage’ usually implies. These are poems that join the dots, fill in the gaps, and suggest how poetry can once more be a tool for critique and engagement with the world as it is. Each poem tracks a different aspect of Capital over the recent past, with the proviso of using none of the author’s own words, and using one quotation from a different periodical source per year.
Main description: This book attempts to do something lasting with the dross of our daily lives: the ephemeral and momentary productions of the media, especially newspapers, magazines, and journals, are transformed into poems that draw the connections that have strung us all across recent history, doing much more than the word ‘collage’ usually implies. These are poems that join the dots, fill in the gaps, and suggest how poetry can once more be a tool for critique and engagement with the world as it is. Each poem tracks a different aspect of Capital over the recent past, with the Oulipian proviso of using none of the author’s own words, and using one quotation from a different periodical source per year. Although engaged with contemporary poetry, Capital also steps around it and strikes off into areas seldom explored in modern literature: human combustion, cancer maps, child labour, cold calling, organ harvesting, incest dreams, insect sex organs, schizophrenic speech patterns, the non-existence of President Nixon, euphemisms for the wages of a Geisha, global management, control and documentation of information as a corporate asset, radiant heating systems users, the spatio-temporal structure of false-consciousness, cheesemakers, swirling solid-to-liquid effect that the company calls Warpo, a mini-series about a mass murderer in a small Southern town, corporate hecklers, a quantity of drugs in glassine envelopes, Spectre gunship operators, a master race of athletes, a golden moon made from nashiji, powdered human bone material, the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, reverse circulation mud flush, butterfly valves, metaphors of ‘virgin’ forests penetrated by white male explorers, sexy takeover visions, depth-of-field, blur, fog, shading, lighting, chocolate-chip cookies with limbs, and drone marketing.
Table of contents: Burnt Capital Cancer Capital Child Capital Cold Capital Dead Capital Dream Capital Erotic Capital Fat Capital Flight Capital Flower Capital Global Capital Hot Capital Intellectual Capital Late Capital Liquid Capital Murder Capital Narco Capital Phantom Capital Seed Capital Shadow Capital Skeleton Capital Sleeping Capital Surplus Capital Surveillance Capital Symbolic Capital Theft Capital Virtual Capital Waste Capital Working Capital Zero Capital
Whenever I hear talk about zero–discharge, I get the warm feeling that
of all the growth strategies that the second–tier companies have considered, none has been
Federal Reserve figures—to say nothing of equity money in everything from real estate to
where covert near–infrared illumination is being used, the pilot will see nothing
could push deposits to a level twice as big as the level consistent with a zero carryover
with interest rates absent from the money demand function, the usual formulation leaves
all–azimuth capable and enable the inertial guidance system to zero out all of the effects
with a vacuum head to pick up pieces of composite and transfer them to a setup table
can grip a blank part, unload the finish–turned part, and drop it into a chute for a transfer
is a fraction of the amount that he was supposed to get, or there is nothing in the envelope
comes up against the ultimate blankness, the loss of all imagery in contemplating an instant transition from life to
his pictures: He mates his borrowings to blankness; he collages on abstractions. He begins
that ‘everyone knows that nothing gets done in department X without money changing
crane charges are less than half those charged by San Juan. For example, empties
none of the canned tomatoes equaled the excellent flavor expected of lightly stewed
veneer of capital, banks had nothing more to lose by betting depositors’ money
no growth is required in the underlying portfolio for the zero to meet its
absent triggering of the swallowing reflex. (Food falls into the pharynx without any
one executive commented: ‘The marginal utility of unaccessed data is zero and, increasingly
Andison’s lethally deadpan Dining Room was empty except for a sole piece of furniture
studying video footage: ‘It is something and it is nothing. I trust my umpires implicitly and
halved the state’s contribution to the island’s operating budget and zeroed out its capital budget
to meet the investor demand for zero–coupon, noncallable paper, typically
absent from the capital–spending side, holding off most purchases until after the merger
continuous–motion flow wrapper, the Zero 9, forms the centerpiece of an integrated packaging system
succumbed to an illness they dubbed ‘no–name fever.’ By the time a doctor came
its absence from the financial statements that they are called upon to produce is a potential source of concern
as they predicted nothing, such dreams did not require the services of a dream interpreter
Zero’, the twisted metal and rubble and mass grave of where
is always necessary to obtain fluidity, and when this is removed by drying, numerous empty pores result.
1975Bus. Week 22 Dec. 48: ‘Zero pollution from paper pulp process’; 1976Bus. Week 22 Nov. 66 D: ‘How to survive in semiconductors’; 1977Forbes 1 Nov. 37: ‘Miami: saved again’; 1978Aviation Week & Space Technol. 6 Feb. 236: ‘Special operations wing faces diverse challenges’; 1979Amer. Banker 6 Dec.: ‘Monetary control: miscellaneous issues’; 1980Canad. Jrnl. Econ. vol. 13 99: ‘Monetarism’; 1981Heritage Found. Reps. 31 Aug.; No. 150: ‘Inadequacies of sea & air based options’; 1982Aviation Week & Space Technol. 2 Aug. 84: ‘Airframe makers utilize new composite methods’; 1983Prod. Engineering Dec. 14: ‘Robots weld bodies for BL’s Metro’; 1984Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. vol. 22 677: ‘Downfall of autocrat’; 1985The Nation 29 June, 803: ‘What light was like’; 1986Wash. Post 21 Oct. Dl (Art sect.): ‘Empty canvases David Salle’; 1987World Politics vol. 39 526: ‘Middlemen in third–world corruption’; 1988Jrnl. Commerce 19 May, 18: ‘Competitive crane operations’; 1989Consumer Reps. July, 472: ‘Does name on can matter?’; 1990NY Times 17 Dec. D 1/3: ‘Banking’s reins: too tight & too loose’; 1991Sunday Times 7 July. ‘Doing splits for a bumper income’; 1992Nutrition Today May, 26: ‘Dysphagia – new frontier’; 1993Marketing Research Spring 2E: ‘Market research & marketing dialects’; 1994Canad. Art December, 56–67: ‘Tragically hip’; 1995Independent 18 Dec. Sl: ‘Matthews fingered over his thumbs’; 1996NY Times 21 July 13; 6/4: ‘Pipeline from Albany looks drier’; 1997Bond Buyer 13 Oct. 8: ‘Plain–Jane appeal lure investors just same’; 1998TheStreet.com 25 Aug.: ‘Waiting for old tech to pop’; 1999Candy Ind. 1 Sept. 52: ‘Buyers, exhibitors confirm Interpack a success’; 2000Time Internat., 13 Nov. 24 ‘Residents of remote Chinese village pay awful price for selling their blood’; 2001Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Jrnl. vol. 14, 383—398: ‘Thinking critically about intellectual capital accounting’; 2002Jrnl. Royal Anthropolog. Inst. 1 June 1: ‘Erotic dreams & nightmares from antiquity to present’; 2003Jrnl. Psychoanal. of Culture & Soc. vol. 8 187–: ‘Sept. 11, 2001 & its cultural psychodynamics’; 2004Ceramic Ind. 1 Jan. 79: ‘Materials handbk.’.
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