the first poem 'adenfrorde' offers a postcolonial critique of australia. the definitions of adenfrorde are apt even if ironically applied ('a paradise of the intellect'). australia - aka australia felix - was repeatedly described by poets & colonial marketing people as a new eden. mckenzie uses the history, derivations, definitions, applications of the word adenfrorde to create a prose poem that has a strong cohesiveness, but is still very flexible, & describes colonial folly in terms of language itself. language processes become a metonym for those of colonisation. 'the extreme unlikeliness of a given situation to produce any form of satisfaction'; 'one experiences sensations of joyousness and epiphany in the naive belief that the natural world is beautiful and that one is a part of it'; 'Eden forward!' 'dispute whether Eden is flawed or Eden is the flaw'; 'an individual who is perceived to be somewhat foolish but harmless'- all have (post)colonial resonance.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
About Me
- Name: michaelf
- Location: melbourne, Australia
this blog is not about me, but about interesting books. but as i dont have a personal blog heres the brief info on my own books: 1) ode ode, salt 2003; 2) (new): BREAK ME OUCH, 3 deep, 2006 (graphic poetry). to purchase go to my publisher's websites or (or for any other reason) email me - readingrevival at gmail dot com. a raiders guide coming soon from giramondo.
previously
- the convenience of labelling - a book or a poet - ...
- blogs i think we need 1:background to my thinking ...
- nonsense ... the line singled out in the geoff pag...
- mckenzies book is clearly a musical text - this el...
- geraldine mckenzie will read at chronicles (91 fit...
- Reading Duty in Rwanda, by Jeff SI bought Geraldin...
- when i say something about poetry to strangers - i...
- the question of how we write about poetry is relat...
- 3 copies of duty now ready to use at st kilda libr...
- duty is the title of duty. there are various dutie...
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