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Outside

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Salt 2011Description: 73pISBN:
  • 9781844717590
DDC classification:
  • 821.914/MCC
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"Outside" is the second full-length collection from the prize-winning poet David McCooey. Taking the most basic of categories-day and night, inside and outside - McCooey makes them the source of powerful meditations on the strangeness of our diurnal lives. In the resonant landscapes of these poems, the domestic slides into the universal, the personal becomes the historical, and the cultural is the real. "Outside" is always unsettling, but it is, too, always humane.

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After Kubrick(i) An Essay on The ShiningA hotel is not a house. The length of a corridoris the length of a mirror halved. A tricycle articulatesthe uncanny difference between floorboard and carpet.The Steadicam is a nervous energy, a kind of music.The music is a kind of violence. The violence--when itcomes--is a kind of intimation of the real thing, likethe stilted dialogue, the hysterical typewriter (first blue,then white), and the shadow of a helicopter on the carin the film's opening sequence (with its synthesised Dies Irae).The style of the blood filling the lobby; the archlysymmetrical shots; the characters caught in reflections;the seduction of numerology-- all of these are realisedin a struggle with the sincerely ugly: the drinking, the manfixed in the labyrinth of his rage, lost in the Indianreservation of his long-forgotten crimes. (The African-Americanis also historically accurate). What becomes of the boy,we wonder, once we have safely seen his father's corpse, frozenin the achromatic salt of a pure, factitious snow. Excerpted from Outside by David McCooey All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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