Using techniques rooted in William Burroughs’ dada-inspired ‘cut-up’ method, Incitements takes the reader under the surface of three works of prose–Peter Sanger’s literary essay White Salt Mountain, Merritt Gibson’s guidebook Summer Nature Notes and Hans Fallada’s novel Every Man Dies Alone–exploring the poetic landscapes of their would-be unconscious. In the relentless imagistic flux, metaphoric excess and quantum poetics that results, Sean Howard uncovers new relationships and resonances in the prose and remixes them as poetry. As Merritt Gibson cautioned, when you turn over a rock “the animals that live on the undersurface are different from those that live on the uppersurface”; so too when we turn language’s stone.

Sean Howard’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Geist, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Descant, and Arc. His first book, Local Calls, was published in 2009. Originally from the United Kingdom, Howard now lives in the lobster-fishing village of Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.

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