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    Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro Epic
    Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro Epic
    Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro Epic
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    Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro Epic

    By Michael Boughn

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    Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic, the latest ground breaking incursion into the ever popular spectacle of the Epic Poem. Tracking the classic epic journey through the unfolding cosmos toward home, though occasionally disoriented by milling cows with similar intent, Cosmographia teems with nasty political invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, and endless exploitive sexual innuendo. Taking as its muses Cab Calloway and Charles Mingus, by the time it gets home, Cosmographia has subjected the epic to unspeakable acts in the name of linguistic rectumtude, dada terrorism, and sporadic ejaculations of self-expression. Oh yeah! – poetry will never be the same.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781927040300
    Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro Epic

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      Another BookThug.ca find. More of the cantos were hits than misses, and the work is remarkably readable for an avant garde poem. I especially liked the fugue-like repetition and the illuminating footnotes that anchor the micro-epic to other works (the poet is clearly very well read). However, like Virgil must part ways with Dante two-thirds of the way through, so the footnotes disappear towards the end of the poem.

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