22 Skidoo/Subtractions: Opus Minus One

Poetry. 22 SKIDOO takes as its playground the junkyard of Modernity. In a contemporary world which discards memory and experience along with last season's shoes, any building over 25 years old, and millions of tons of last year's computers and cell phones, these poems recycle archeologically recovered materials into a funny, lively exploration of the possibilities of creation in a world where the young think that what Duke Ellington made wasn't really music. If 22 SKIDOO reclaims the junk of modern culture, finding for it new forms and arrangements, SUBTRACTIONS kicks the props from under the elaborate illusion of completion that ironically locates a world without history. This is a two-volume book, with the two volumes bound back-to-back. 22 SKIDOO is the winner of the 2009 Friggin Prize.

About the author

Michael Boughn was described in the Globe and Mail as 'an obscure, veteran poet with a history of being overlooked by the mainstream.' His last book of poetry, Cosmographia - a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic (2011), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Boughn
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781897388341
• ISBN: 978-1-897388-34-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 193 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Series: Book Thug Tradebooks; Book Thug Tradebooks
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama