Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of absolute acculturation. The book comprises a dozen short stories, each generated out of a line from the old nursery rhyme, laced with double entendres, multiple meanings and overlaps. These tales, written by a poet with a rich touch of language, question the very notion of identity and belonging, instead presenting the...
Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "America...
Previously serialised in various journals, this is the first collection of these personal and historical vignettes in alternating prose and poetry, from an artist who moves from London's East End to Black Mountain College to the New York Art scene.
Previously serialised in various journals, this is the first collection of these personal and historical vignettes in alternating prose and poetry, fr...
This is a compendium of poems by Los Angeles avant-garde poet Will Alexander, featuring two early works, 'Asia & Haiti' and 'Stratospheric Canticles' plus a previously unpublished collection call 'Impulse & Nothingness'.
This is a compendium of poems by Los Angeles avant-garde poet Will Alexander, featuring two early works, 'Asia & Haiti' and 'Stratospheric Canticles' ...
A hybridised prose-poem which forms a self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary academia. The works of 'Divine Will' have been confined to a vacuum, wilfully detatched from their moorings of time and place. This work seeks to subvert the tautological authority of the neck-frilled academicians over the historical groundlings of the pit.
A hybridised prose-poem which forms a self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary acad...