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Resistance is Futile

  • ISBN-13: 9781857544046
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By John Gallas
  • Price: AUD $22.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 28/06/1999
  • Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 146g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Resistance is Futile opens in Mongolia with a poem called 'Yoghurt'. It is spring in Ulan Bator and Hoo Gerjan is seeking legal advice over a stolen car. This is the first of twelve weird narratives separated by brief, lyric moments: stories of Samuel Beckett's telephone, a bet on God's fondness, Fyodor the Crow, murder and revenge in the New Zealand goldfields, a little Italian anarchist assassin, a Christmas message from the Vatican received through an iron, and so on. Gallas keeps finding new ways of telling stories in poetry. His characters endure and survive the wild short-circuitings of language and plot. The most anarchic fact of all is that these things really happen.
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