Format: Hardback
        
        
        
        
            Pages: 100
          
                              
            ISBN: 9780819575869
          
                              
            Pub Date: September 2015
          
                                                            
                                          Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
                                    
                              
            Illustrations: 3 illus.
          
                    
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                £18.50
            
  
          
          
          
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          Description:
      
      
        A politico-linguistic problem, a conflicted hairstyle, and a conflict-bound drone, Fauxhawk works in the space where dissent becomes materialized, ironized, and commodified. Engaging drone optics, redactions, renditions, comedy, and cinema, Ben Doller wrenches exuberant music from the drone of the everyday. The citizens in these poems are fraught in their passivity, both ashamed of being and of being surveyed. Occupied by the material forces conspiring against poetry, Fauxhawk takes on the economics of writing, university bureaucracies, and complicit injustice. The poems in Doller’s thrilling new collection attempt to find their own tone amid the blare via formal innovation, carving a space where presence is signified, in hopeful and clarifying resistance. An online reader’s companion is available at http://bendoller.site.wesleyan.edu.