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	Michael Farrell ode ode
	Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, NSW in 1965. His poems have been included in Best Australian Poems 2003 (Black Inc); Best Australian Poetry 2003 and 2005 (UQP); and Calyx 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (Paper Bark). He has a blog http://readingrevival.blogspot.com, devoted to raising the profile of Australian poetry through reading and criticism. Michael has lived in Melbourne since 1990. Email: limecha@hotmail.com. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857530 ISBN-10: 1876857536 ISBN-13: 9781876857530 Author: Michael Farrell Title: ode ode Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Nov-02 Extent: 116pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 7 mm Weight: 174 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: Widely and frequently published in magazines and newspapers, Michael Farrell is Australia’s influential new stylist, with a style that mutates as it charts the rough terrain of someone trying to read (and live in other ways) through their thirties. There are patterns in the pitfalls, and philosophy in the form … Fantastic, catholic and optimistic, ode ode – his long-desired first book – displays a learning love of rural and avant garde cultures. Main description: A book that ‘does’ the subject: including pop fantasies of hares, fluteplayers, nudes, whores and Proust; (Marianne) Moore-style constructions of a gamut from Gosse to Guns ’n Roses; sequences inspired by the songs of DJ Shadow, Blur and Oasis. A poetry of phrases rather than lines, of a mind thinking (Stein’s ‘entity’) rather than a presentation of thought/identity. Following Brecht, suspense is held in high disregard; following Baudrillard, a democracy is offered: each poem a small celebration of the now, like a promiscuous Frank O’Hara with too many secrets. It’s about balancing: influences/sources; what’s written/what’s unwritten; resistances/acceptances of meaning. God gave us irony to trick the devil, but the devil was already inside. Table of contents: codas ’ … — ? * ! 97–98 living at the z vidcore aesthetic activity thors loomthing burlesque warmup boxy ey_s they asked for my death storey straw my sentiments exactly extension 34 manana at the fishhouses cape beautiful art nouveau citizen kane mays the earthquake & the cardinal phoenix odyssey what are ys 96–00 person with a flute call it the will of god chirp hare encounter nella casa di balla tutto balla john ashbery impersonator bullshit pretty pennies mrs robinson & a mango yet when we listen to their voices blood on the futon preludes bc far from ok comet preludes leaf toil extensions red cues informality flea school ethic my mind doesnt think so 21 “ ” who are you lions curtain a h at work st kilda morning poem in one part after jim showed his bum the evening slid bird in position lets dance hurts end m ode writing 2nd ave pts 1 & 2 track listing rented/ blurbug / nikes & dcs / marriage / 1989/ the middle _ i_sing the me to i phrasebook music by elton john twentyseven sorrows forty days in the daffodil pit view with a thiefs hand the tortoise who mistook a pickaxe for love vinyl inventor at a rodeo country sample when butterflies get tired fall between the two described by the dead ode ode metaphysique variations on a bridal march 96–97 nude descending a liftshaft proust aboard a doomed corvette the whores warm ride the singer blue money View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (72 KB) Excerpt from book: extension 34 living at the z extension 34 tho_ning to race or to worry cone i saw in loviewth d_blin man tub my nut au grow me idea fingers fingers fingers & bread living at the a after i was nailed denial denial neon to call or o to write to cone i saw in lo viewth dreami_r man tub my nits nits scold me break it off or go hungry z & a & all in between i was so lonely incom municado until i was a hill out the down id downside downsize ny cliches & clinches at the y it was a crazy conversation but proprietaria convenevolezza i thought itd wait till i was older io pensiero ild aspettare cassa io ‘extension 33’ – yoko ono Review quote: It’s easy to see why Michael Farrell already has something of a reputation as a stylist, though this is his first collection. Inventive, sharp-witted, entertaining and meticulously made, the poems in ode ode offer a lower-case, unpunctuated take on style (‘i perforce have metamorphosed / more than once for a ball at short / notice’) in which style is energised, orchestrated substance. Chris Edwards Australian book Review Review quote: ode ode should carry a ‘very high sustainable-energy’ rating decal. Gender is shed in a line – in a fresh take on a post-Duchamp readymade, Michael Farrell’s nude descends a liftshaft. Unpunctuated, lowercase, streamlined and funny. Five stars! Pam Brown Review quote: This is a collection to read and re-read for its obsessions, its bricolage, its loquacious speed, its moments of downplay and its ecstasy. Edgy, full, these poems’ complex mixes and sharply intuited jump-cuts are the work of a young writer richly attuned to the temper and speed of his times. Martin Harrison