R. T. A. Parker
Space Odes
Space Odes
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RTA Parker's Space Odes is a romp through intertextual space, lampooning, deriding, despairing at, and celebrating robots, the universe, love, and sport. It ends with the realization that even the silent beyond has been colonized by wankers. Texts quoted from or paraphrased repeatedly include Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary's The Psychedelic Experience, The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Star Wars, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A1: Britains Longest Road, Silent Running, Cool Runnings, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton and Dhalgren, Emily Witts' Future Sex, The Song Remains the Same, Aliens, Blade Runner, Larry McMurtrys' Lonesome Dove, Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems, Woodstock, Rainer Maria Rilkes' Duino Elegies, Herman Melville's Mardi, and Willa Cathers' O Pioneers!
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 80 pages
Publication date: 05 November 2021
Publisher: UEA Publishing Project
RTA Parker's Space Odes is a captivating and mind-bending exploration of constellation and collage, weaving together writing and rewriting in a playful and allusive manner that traverses intertextual spaces, lampooning, deriding, despairing at, and celebrating robots, the universe, love, and sport, primarily cricket. This poetic journey employs a quirky poetics of anxiety and joy, reflecting upon the world we are, in essence, catastrophically messing up.
"No catharsis. No breakthrough into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends with you realizing that even the silent beyond has been colonized by wankers."
Texts quoted from or paraphrased repeatedly and/or prominently include Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary's The Psychedelic Experience, The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Star Wars, George Eliot's Middlemarch, A1: Britain's Longest Road, Silent Running, Cool Runnings, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton and Dhalgren, Emily Witts' Future Sex, The Song Remains the Same, Aliens, Blade Runner, Larry McMurtrys' Lonesome Dove, Charles Olson's The Maximus Poems, Woodstock, Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, Herman Melville's Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, as well as Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
RTA Parker, born in 1978, is a poet whose work has been featured in various literary journals and magazines, including Onedit, Signals, The Rialto, Great Works, Freaklung, Naked Punch, Glitch, Brand, and The Wolf. He has also graced the stages of numerous reading series, including Crossing the Line, Chlorine, and Desperate for Love. Parker is the editor and printer of Crater, a hand-bound and letter-pressed poetry pamphlet series based in London and Brighton. His poem, "All The Bleak Chippies," included in Space Odes, secured the Ledbury Poetry Prize in 2018.
Weight: 108g
Dimension: 130 x 188 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913861346
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