Poetics of Work

Noemi Lefebvre

Poetics of Work
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transit Books
Country
Published
18 March 2021
Pages
120
ISBN
9781945492440

Poetics of Work

Noemi Lefebvre

A state of emergency has been declared in France. In Lyon, protesters and police clash in the streets. At the unemployment office, there are few job opportunities for poets going around. So the poet reads accounts of life under the Third Reich and in Nazi language, smokes cannabis, walks through the streets, and eats bananas, drawn by an overbearing father into a hilarious and often cynical exploration of the push to be employed and the pull to write. In this Oulipian experiment written without gender markers for its narrator, Noe mi Lefebvre presents us with a comic and irreverent reckoning with the rise of nationalism and the hegemony capitalism has on our language, actions, and identities.

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