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    Cut-up Apologetic
    Cut-up Apologetic
    Cut-up Apologetic
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    Cut-up Apologetic

    By Jamie Sharpe

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    Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection

    Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back. These are poems about failing to leave our mark while marks are left on us about the collective insatiability of emptying surroundings in an attempt to fill ourselves.

    At the same time, is na ve and playful even when examining fear expressed as discrimination or the ways restlessness transitions into an inertia spelling cultural death. Sharpe finds strange new horizons extend(ing)/only backward, into memory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781770907133
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      Cut-up Apologetic - Jamie Sharpe

      CUT-UP

      APOLOGETIC

      ecw press | a misfit book

      ONE

      DADA

      According to legend, Tristan Tzara randomly stabbed his penknife into a French-German dictionary to find the ideal name, striking Dada, meaning hobby horse in French. In German, Dada additionally connotes a foolish naïveté.

      Hobby horses ridden into floorboards:

      the head ground. Statute set

      of nostalgia brought

      past collapse.

      Ahead, ground set with statues:

      exhausted objects, pillars

      of the past collapsing

      into novelty.

      Exhausted pillars object

      to monotonous stability.

      Into the novelty

      of falling.

      A stable of monotone

      grey hobby horses,

      falling

      into disuse as children grow.

      Grey hobby horses

      childishly carry the hours

      till their disuse, as we grow

      into exhausted pillars.

      COMPOUNDED

      There was some element of loneliness involved —

      so easy to be loved — so hard to love.

      F. Scott Fitzgerald

      collapsed against the bar

      collapsed against the bartender

      tender is the night

      is the nightclub’s only blonde

      club’s only blonde broad

      broadcasting looks across

      casting looks across counters

      countersinking loss

      inking loss with beer

      with beer mugs everywhere

      mugs everywhere

      WORLD SERIES

      for S.N.

      you gotta be old already

      relaxed

      don’t worry about the big right com

      they were worried about uh … debate

      motorboat a bit later

      they’d

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