Virtualis - Topologies of the Unreal

Poetry. VIRTUALIS: TOPOLOGIES OF THE UNREAL is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, David Dowker and Christine Stewart have created a series of linguistic interjections that run from the allegorical barricades of the baroque to the topological confound of the modern, incorporating (for example) Medusa and the Sphinx, aestivating snails and the alchemy of bees. Lush and extravagant, this is writing tuned in to the terrestrial spectacle.

About the author

CHRISTINE STEWART lives on the North Saskatchewan River. She works at the University of Alberta and the Learning Centre in downtown Edmonton. Publications include from Taxonomy, Pessoa's July: or the months of astonishments, The Trees of Periphery, and The Humanist.

DAVID DOWKER was born in Kingston, Ontario but has lived most of his life in Toronto. He was the editor of The Alterran Poetry Assemblage from 1996 to 2004.

Product details

• Authors: David Dowker, Christine Stewart
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2013
• EAN: 9781927040621
• ISBN: 978-1-927040-62-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Series: Book Thug Tradebooks; Book Thug Tradebooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies