I Am a City Still But Soon I Shan't Be

By Roger Farr

Poetry. In nine Cantos�spheres of hell�Roger Farr's I AM A CITY STILL BUT SOON I SHAN'T BE metabolizes the modernist long poem to provide a new, psychogeographical I�witness account of the post�Real city. Avoiding the worn paths of the flaneur, Farr works with "pre-conceptualist" footage of Vancouver shot in 1973, later discovered in a dream. New York becomes an "elegant incubator" for the new avant-gardes, who are preparing for another civil war. Berlin is a nightclub, or a mall, that "kettles" its negations. Nanaimo is a necropolis seen through a lens held by the hand of a dead poet. Meanwhile, a statue of Artemis explodes from the streets in Siracusa, setting off a riot during the 2010 Olympics. Throughout, bodies fail to align with their coordinates. Urban streams, floods of capital, and other libidinal "flows" offer multiple routes through the contemporary metropolis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554201527
• ISBN13: 9781554201525
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"