The Squatters\' Gift
The Squatters\' Gift The Squatters' Gift is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. Karol Maliszewski observes that Rybicki has taken over from the…
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The Squatters\' Gift
The Squatters' Gift is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. Karol Maliszewski observes that Rybicki has taken over from the Surrealists and the Dadaists: "the hero of these poems is language -- escaping from a man and suddenly returning in flashes and dazzles.The opening lines of The Squatters' Gift, is reminiscent of a sort of vagabond Jack Gladney from Don DeLillo's acclaimed White Noise, wandering the supermarket aisles in a consumerist haze: "The supermarket / melts / like a chocolate bar: / a dendrite stack." But the comparison is short-lived and far too simplistic. Like Miron Bialoszewski, Paul Celan and Tristan Tzara before him, Rybicki excavates syllable and song, mind and muck, to invent a transnational poetry pointedly unapologetic and utterly unique.
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