This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomedia-saturated world in which we are enmeshed. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended Tweets; each section infuses itself with continuous shifting tones; styles; and commentary; which are in turn provocative; emotive; and deeply satiric.Mashing up the lexicons of Stein; Zukofsky; Shakespeare; Whitman; the recent financial meltdown; semiotic theory; Lady Gaga; Derrida; and Flickr streams; This Poem is a self-reflexive romp through the fragments of post-consumerist culture. Both celebrating and poking fun at contradictory trends; threads; webbed networks of information and desire; and the language of the “ordinary;rdquo; it opens itself with immediacy to the otherness of daily carnage.This Poem interrogates the tradition of the Canadian long poem; systematically and systemically accusing it of being a multi-platform interdisciplinary repository; an archive of fragments; updates; analysis; aggregates; treatises; advice; precepts; echoes; and questions; unravelling into itself; in an ever-enfolding; luminous text of concomitance.Karasickrsquo;s serial poem textually proceeds in the tradition of such poets as George Oppen; bpNichol; Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer.
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