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Reviews- ISBN: 97800978158767, 500 copies.
- $18.00 (£8.00)
- poetry
- 80pp
- 2007
from the BookThug catalogue...
"Do we, any of us, speak
the same language? Blissful Times is a collection of poetry
that tries to
find out. Beginning with found text
from Samuel Beckett’s Happy
Days,
Sandra Alland 'translates'
the poem 63 times, morphing it into different
poetic forms
and emotional states, even different media. Using formal
constraints, specialty
dictionaries, internet search and translation engines,
voice-activated software, the
weather, global news and personal experiences, Alland invents pieces ranging from
lyric poetry to sound poetry, from theatre to
rant, from photography to Boggle. Edgy,
passionate, amusing and intelligent,
Blissful Times
is a poetic cocktail
for our troubled
times."