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Believers

Andrew Durbin

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Description:Andrew Durbin’s Believers uses gonzo reportage, ekphrasis, speculative futurism and southern gastronomy to assess the ways in which notions of the past and future accumulate to form an experience of the present. The elegance of Durbin’s style and the precision of his thought work together to bring elements as disparate as Paula Dean, Kubrick/Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence, Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss and the work of Monica Majoli into a single cocktail party no one can bring themselves to leave.--How do you feel about controlling your life right now? Do you want to survive, or merely succeed? In his acute, deep, voluble, immaculate, and unerring Believers, Andrew Durbin describes the present. I think of Renata Adler, not Joan Didion. Tan Lin, instead of Ashbery. Herbert, before Wordsworth. When we begin to want to know what the first decade of this century was like, we will read this book. For now, I’ll say it made me feel alive.—Lucy IvesThe poems in Andrew Durbin’s lush Believers, like George Herbert’s poems in The Temple, are not only about devotion, but are themselves devotional works. The objects of Durbin’s devotion, which is both sublime and perverse, descend from the spectacular heaven of the present tense. It turns out that in the present, Justin Bieber and Paula Deen are but two of a large pantheon guarding over the “near impossible exchange / between times once alike but denied / the way back to one another.” I mean, this book is a trip. Its mise-en-scène includes jets and abject hotel suites, refugee apartments and a cloudy San Francisco. And yet the singer of these hymns to glamour remains “stationed / among the nodes / asserting [him] / in the various networks / that have become feeling.” It’s a feeling both holy and, seriously, profane. This book is a major contribution to a genealogy of the present state of the soul. Believe it.—Brandon BrownWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Believers. To get started finding Believers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 71

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Poor Claudia

Release: 2013

ISBN

Description: Andrew Durbin’s Believers uses gonzo reportage, ekphrasis, speculative futurism and southern gastronomy to assess the ways in which notions of the past and future accumulate to form an experience of the present. The elegance of Durbin’s style and the precision of his thought work together to bring elements as disparate as Paula Dean, Kubrick/Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence, Robert Gardner’s Forest of Bliss and the work of Monica Majoli into a single cocktail party no one can bring themselves to leave.--How do you feel about controlling your life right now? Do you want to survive, or merely succeed? In his acute, deep, voluble, immaculate, and unerring Believers, Andrew Durbin describes the present. I think of Renata Adler, not Joan Didion. Tan Lin, instead of Ashbery. Herbert, before Wordsworth. When we begin to want to know what the first decade of this century was like, we will read this book. For now, I’ll say it made me feel alive.—Lucy IvesThe poems in Andrew Durbin’s lush Believers, like George Herbert’s poems in The Temple, are not only about devotion, but are themselves devotional works. The objects of Durbin’s devotion, which is both sublime and perverse, descend from the spectacular heaven of the present tense. It turns out that in the present, Justin Bieber and Paula Deen are but two of a large pantheon guarding over the “near impossible exchange / between times once alike but denied / the way back to one another.” I mean, this book is a trip. Its mise-en-scène includes jets and abject hotel suites, refugee apartments and a cloudy San Francisco. And yet the singer of these hymns to glamour remains “stationed / among the nodes / asserting [him] / in the various networks / that have become feeling.” It’s a feeling both holy and, seriously, profane. This book is a major contribution to a genealogy of the present state of the soul. Believe it.—Brandon BrownWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Believers. To get started finding Believers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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