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Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities―to their portrayal in the media―and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader's companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.
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SARAH BLAKE is the founder of the online writing tool Submittrs and a recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Drunken Boat, FIELD, and The Threepenny Review. She lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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"Mr. West transforms the poet's fascination with the rapper into an amazing group of poems that explores what she knows or can find out about West, alongside her own life. The poems construct West as unmistakably human and larger than life―as much like as unlike the poet. The work is tender without being sentimental, funny without being cruel, and obsessive without being exploitative. It is a study in nuance and it is strangely moving."―Evie Shockley, author of the new black
"The plagiarism and copyright battles of the twenty-first century are the equivalent of the obscenity trials of the twentieth. If you're not making art to be copied, you're not really making art for the twenty-first century. Taking a page from Kanye West's book, Sarah Blake embraces and enacts the long history of sharing and sampling from rap music, single-handedly and elegantly bringing poetry into the present moment. Media saturated & wildly musical, brilliantly original & stunningly plundered, this book is now."―Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing
"The plagiarism and copyright battles of the twenty-first century are the equivalent of the obscenity trials of the twentieth. If you're not making art to be copied, you're not really making art for the twenty-first century. Taking a page from Kanye West's book, Sarah Blake embraces and enacts the long history of sharing and sampling from rap music, single-handedly and elegantly bringing poetry into the present moment. Media saturated & wildly musical, brilliantly original & stunningly plundered, this book is now."―Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing
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- PublisherWesleyan University Press
- Publication date2015
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