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Ignatz
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Artikel-Nr:
9781935536017
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2010
Seiten:
84
Autor:
Monica Youn
Gewicht:
136 g
Format:
224x150x8 mm
Serie:
Stahlecker Selections
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
MONICA YOUN is the author of another poetry collection, Barter. She is an attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. She has been awarded poetry fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Stanford University. She lives in New York City.
Ignatz takes the form of a cycle of love poems--in radical variations--based on Ignatz Mouse, the rodent anti-hero and love-object of George Herriman's classic comic strip Krazy Kat. For decades, Krazy Kat rang the changes on a quirky theme of unrequited love: cat loves mouse; mouse hates cat; mouse hits cat with brick; cat mistakes brick for love; and so on, day after day. The backgrounds of the strip were in constant inexplicable flux: a desiccated specimen of Arizona flora morphs in the next panel into a crescent moon, then into a snowcapped butte, while the characters chatted obliviously on, caught up in their own obsessive round.