John J. Trause - Exercises in High Treason
John J. Trause - Exercises in High Treason
POETRY
Since time immemorial, sacred texts have been approached with reverence. Whether it be the Dead Sea Scrolls, Shakespeare's sonnets or the Gettysburg Address, all have been analyzed with high-mindedness and a tight ass. John J. Trause's Exercises in High Treason has arrived to blow the hot air away with a fresh blast of inventiveness. Playfully reinterpreting and subverting the words of the mighty or even the most banal advertising copy, he has created poetry that is a brain teaser. A rib tickler. Like Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Guillaume Apollinaire, Trause adores rewiring the absurd and the lyrical. Are you ready to receive the translation?
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“Simultaneously funny and smart.” —The Pedestal
“John J. Trause turns the very notion of translation on its head in a way that is anarchic, freeing, and resonant of a whole new kind of poetry.” —Jennifer Blowdryer
“Mordantly funny...The venerable William Carlos Williams takes some ribbing in this highly enjoyable book, with his famous red wheelbarrow morphing into a digital rectal thermometer. The good doctor surely knew rectal thermometers, but also surely didn’t live in the digital world. Poe gets a ribbing as well, with his raven rapping turning into a cockroach crapping. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous “How do I love thee” is lovingly reproduced here, but with the words removed, leaving only the punctuation...Exercises in High Treason is a whole book full of connections made to bring the world to bear.” — At The Inkwell
John J. Trause’s translations, poetry, and visual work appear internationally in numerous journals and anthologies, including Crossings, Maintenant, Offerta Speciale, Rabbit Ears (NYQ Books, 2015), and the great weather for MEDIA anthologies It’s Animal but Merciful, I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand, and Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea. He has 120 turtlenecks in every shade thanks to Uniqlo and Dalton’s.
Publication date: April 11 2016
$17.00
ISBN: 978-0985731786