Augustine In Carthage And Other Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Alessandro Porco ISBN: 9781554903528
Publisher: ECW Press Publication: April 1, 2008
Imprint: a misFit book Language: English
Author: Alessandro Porco
ISBN: 9781554903528
Publisher: ECW Press
Publication: April 1, 2008
Imprint: a misFit book
Language: English

Augustine in Carthage and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco. Equally crude and charming locker-room macho and sensitive these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A poetry that gleefully articulates the possibilities of a 21st century balls-deep masculinity Porco’s new collections begins with its most important work “Augustine in Carthage ” a trans-historical re-imagining of Book III of St. Augustine’s Confessions which includes (among other things) philosophizing strippers Tampico bombers rabbit holes coprology and comic-book heroism. But for all its bombast “Augustine in Carthage” examines quite seriously ideas related to the experience of experience the morality of poetry and the hypocrisy of spiritual conversion. The book ends with an equally significant suite of depraved yet learned limericks: Porco’s perverse star shines in this unprecedented contribution to Canadian letters exploring myriad filthy matters of heart. Augustine in Carthage and Other Poems also includes translations of Italian poetry re-mixes of classic English poems performance pieces tender love poems and – if you would believe – even a short pornographic novel. Reminding readers that through Tradition the strange and new emerges this is a deeply-felt and original collection a work that understands (as its epigraph in the words of Diderot insists) “there is a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.”

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Augustine in Carthage and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco. Equally crude and charming locker-room macho and sensitive these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A poetry that gleefully articulates the possibilities of a 21st century balls-deep masculinity Porco’s new collections begins with its most important work “Augustine in Carthage ” a trans-historical re-imagining of Book III of St. Augustine’s Confessions which includes (among other things) philosophizing strippers Tampico bombers rabbit holes coprology and comic-book heroism. But for all its bombast “Augustine in Carthage” examines quite seriously ideas related to the experience of experience the morality of poetry and the hypocrisy of spiritual conversion. The book ends with an equally significant suite of depraved yet learned limericks: Porco’s perverse star shines in this unprecedented contribution to Canadian letters exploring myriad filthy matters of heart. Augustine in Carthage and Other Poems also includes translations of Italian poetry re-mixes of classic English poems performance pieces tender love poems and – if you would believe – even a short pornographic novel. Reminding readers that through Tradition the strange and new emerges this is a deeply-felt and original collection a work that understands (as its epigraph in the words of Diderot insists) “there is a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.”

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