{"product_id":"huncke-a-poem-paintings-paperback","title":"Huncke: A Poem \u0026 Paintings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRick Mullin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 2008, this second edition of Huncke is a reconsideration. Many of the stanzas have been improved with care taken to keep the original narrative on track. That narrative, which uses Herbert Huncke as a scaffold for a gloss on American social issues, art, and history, has been extended with the \"discovery\" of a lost canto. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An epic narrative poem where time is a many-layered thing, Huncke is a world-in-a-poem, where its titular hero\/anti-hero, inspiration and name-giver to the Beat Poets, and low-life\/high-life, infamous, indefinable, freewheeling rebel-without-a-category icon appears in many dimensions: in memory, in history, in the here-and-now, in poetry, in dialogue with \"angels\" and \"ghosts\", in holographic animations, in real and fictitious characters of every stripe, all contained within the constraints of a medieval form (ottava rima to the cognoscenti) that creates the sense of a forest or a feast of cantos winding their way, stoned-soul fashion, through haunted catacombs or buzzing \"red-yellow\" honeycombs, an underground world that all begins at a poetry reading attended by Mullin himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is clearly not the sort of poetry that \"molders in the stacks \/ of storage rooms,\" but the kind that actively creates a world whose ecosystem can't help but stimulate a heightened awareness of the interaction between life, politics, and art; an ecosystem that also contains, for your reading pleasure a funhouse, where you will definitely get deliriously lost.\" (Siham Karami)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 138\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329437753651,"sku":"9780989898454","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/G4-AxbX6M9780989898454.webp?v=1778165902","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/huncke-a-poem-paintings-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}