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    Dazzle Ships: Poems
    Dazzle Ships: Poems
    Dazzle Ships: Poems
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    Dazzle Ships: Poems

    By Jamie Sharpe

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    Poems that challenge the depths of perception

    Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer’s perspective (in this case, German submarines). “Razzle dazzle” was art attempting to hide life.

    Jamie Sharpe’s Dazzle Ships is also concerned with art’s relationship to life. It questions how we build poems from the material of mass culture. And in asking whether authentic modes of expression can be found in an increasingly automated world, Sharpe creates a poetry that is at once as disturbing as it is hilarious and as deeply profound as it is subtle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781773050089
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      Dazzle Ships - Jamie Sharpe

      CONTENTS

      SAINT PAUL IN MINNEAPOLIS/

      CLEAN THE WAVES DEAD CALM

      I

      ENDNOTES

      20/20 PROPHECY

      AFTER 2020

      MADE A CONTRIBUTION BEING YET ANOTHER CAUTIONARY TALE

      THE ENGAGEMENT

      SS P.K. SUBBAN BOBBLEHEAD

      UNNATURALLY BALANCED

      AUTHOR PHOTO

      BEFORE DAD’S COOKIES, PAPA’S CHOCOLATE DUNK BRAZILIAN

      POOR, DELICIOUS NINE

      A RED CARPET FOR THE SUN WITH ONE REVIEW

      EMBRACING THE PSEUDONYM/PYRAMIDS

      POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION

      CUT-UP APOLOGETIC/ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TODAY

      B-2

      CONTINUITY ERROR

      HIGH RIVER HIGH MASSACRE

      THE MIDDLE PATH

      CHATTERBOX

      MARBLING & IMMORTALITY

      OTHERWISE THE ILLNESS ONTO US/ACTOR AND THE WET PAPER BAG

      SOTHEBY’S SWALLOWED THE WORM

      THESE WORDS ARE A FRIGID -100˚ F

      CROWN LAND

      DENMARK PURE GOD’S GRACE & THE BLESSED ORB

      CHOKING ON SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

      BOLER

      ONE MORE POEM FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS

      ONLY WANT APPLAUSE IN 10/4 TIME

      SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES/RUSH TO THE MIDDLE

      FAULT VODKA/BLAME JUICE

      PROFANE FEET, WET CEMENT

      BABY CAMOUFLAGE/IMPRINTS ON GLASS

      GOOD-DAY, FRIEND

      DOOR TO DOOR TO GRAVE/GIVEN EITHER I CHOOSE OR

      PROCREATION

      FRIDGE BECAME A CANVAS AND MAN REMAINED MEAT

      PLATO’S DD-3

      MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA TEA COMPANY

          ACQUET CLUB

      HALF JACKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR

      NOT IMMUNE UNTIL INFECTED

      FEARSOME RETURN

      II

      NOTHING ELSE FROM THE PERIOD POSSESSES SUCH IMPASSIONED TONALITY

      CAN REMEMBER NO POEMS OF MEMORABLE QUALITY

      SORRY ABOUT SIS, DAD, BUT THE PHOTOCOPIER WON’T COLLATE PROPERLY

      COINAGE OF EMOTIONAL EXCHANGE

      THIS IS FOR ELDERLY CATS WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. THAT WHAT YOU WANTED?

      A FREQUENTLY OCCURRING, SHARED CONDITION WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT

      GOODS CONVEYED TO THE SCANNER WHILE THE REGISTER TABULATES MY TOTAL AND THE CASHIER ASSESSES MY WORTH

      GUARDING, SLEEPING, DREAMING

      UNSAFE, SINCERE APPRECIATION

      DO NOT REVERE POPULAR MUSIC

      I HAVE FANTASTIC LUCK WITH ENGAGED WOMEN

      IN THE WORLD

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