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Solex Brothers (Redux), The: And Other Prose Poems

Paperback by Kennard, Luke

Solex Brothers (Redux), The: And Other Prose Poems

£8.99

ISBN:
9781844715480
Publication Date:
5 Jul 2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Salt Publishing
Pages:
80 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 15 Aug 2026
Solex Brothers (Redux), The: And Other Prose Poems

Description

Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos, philosophical tracts and grammar. Unlike a toboggan of wolves, The Solex Brothers explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour; cherishing its influences with a poststructuralist's vertical rigour; and, at times, chasing its tail with a schoolboy's reductive snigger. Like a toboggan of wolves who are beginning to regret having set-upon and eaten their driver, the world of "The Solex Brothers" is funny, sad and irretrievably lost

Contents

The Solex Brothers To a Wolf Log Cabin Scarecrow The Wolf's Career The Esplanade Notes

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