{"product_id":"9781922181466","title":"The Bloomin' Notions of Other \u0026 Beau","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud told his friends in Africa that he had “seen Australia”. But what did he mean by “seen”? Visited? Viewed on the horizon? Imagined? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of antipodes—inversions—of the prose poems collected in Rimbaud’s \u003cem\u003eLes Illuminations\u003c\/em\u003e, which Toby Fitch turns upside down, hijacking and re-versing their content. Here you will find collages, redactions, homophonic and metonymic mistranslations, pattern poems, concrete poems and other systematic derangements, some curiously child-like, others warped by the virtual world. Rimbaud’s prose proves fertile ground in which to grow \u003cem\u003eBloomin’ Notions\u003c\/em\u003e—poems that see the land Down Under in an other light. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e, Toby Fitch releases hordes of godless hierodules to hack, frack and adirondack multiversal pathways through the parallel universes of Australian poetry. This is the archive as hi-rise, Rimbaud via Ashbery fed through the Shredder of Babel, where the jackhammered lupids of a Concrete aesthetic ruse, saturate, fold and bend in a ‘double sex heartbeat ribcage jangle’. In this uniquely co-dependent autopoiesis, Fitch has produced an anonymous autobiography that is at once prolifically particular and breathtakingly universal.\" —Fiona Hile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fitch explores the nether regions of late hominid consumer culture with ready humour, great savvy and Rimbauldian raunch and verve.”—Chris Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToby Fitch is the author of \u003cem\u003eRawshock \u003c\/em\u003e(Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann 2012), which was a co-winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, and \u003cem\u003eJerilderies\u003c\/em\u003e (Vagabond Press 2014), plus two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eQuarrels\u003c\/em\u003e (Stale Objects dePress 2013) and \u003cem\u003eEveryday Static \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Rare Objects 2010). Based in Sydney, he works as a bookseller, a creative writing teacher, as poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e, and runs the monthly poetry night at Sappho Books Café and Wine Bar. He recently submitted a doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney on alternative play in contemporary Australian poetry. \u003cem\u003eBloomin' Notions \u003c\/em\u003eis his third book of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064575213808,"sku":"9781922181466","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922181466_p0.jpg?v=1763633616","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922181466","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}