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Poetry Canadian

Dendrite Balconies

by (author) Sean Braune

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2019
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773850955
    Publish Date
    Sep 2019
    List Price
    $18.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773850979
    Publish Date
    Sep 2019
    List Price
    $18.99

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Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other writers, conversations, and popular media-reassembling textual fragments into poetic sculptures.

Blending together conceptual writing and lyric poetry, Braune locates beauty in the chaotic landscape of the urban environment and the digital era. Full of smart, funny, insightful moments, this is a poetic montage that collapses experimental traditions into the noise and clang of urban space, and out of the silent cries of canons and libraries.

When the author dies, the reader is born. In Dendrite Balconies, the reader becomes a new author as Braune assembles frenetic, dissociative fragments of language into an aesthetic and sonic whole.

 

About the author

Sean Braune is a poet, philosopher, and fillmaker. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks. His first book of philosophy was Language Parasites. Nuptials is his first feature-length film.

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