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Choice of Uppercuts, A (Kindle)
Oliver Scharpf and Marco Sonzogni (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 2011
103 pages
Kindle (eBook)
ISBN13: 9781550715613
ISBN10: 1550715615
English, Italian
Translated from the Italian
$9.95 Canada, $9.95 US
An uppercut, in boxing, is a punch that comes from underneath and hits you on the chin. Often, it knocks you to the floor ... cold ... out for the count. But the thing is, to attempt an uppercut, you've got to put your guard down. You see, in literature you can win on points. But with this sort of business either you win by KO or you don't. -- Oliver Scharpf
enough of poetic poetry/ but also of real poetry/ for that matter / you can no longer make poetry / out of poetry no more books of poetry/ if poetry has to be/ then it has to be something close/ to a name written on the groin of a beach/ just before a tongue of foam / licks it away
Scharpf's poems can be defined as expanded haiku. In spite of their brevity, however, they are suited to record physical and emotional journeys. Scharpf's verse has a distinctive colloquial diction: a sort of noisy stream of consciousness established by unorthodox syntax, sparse punctuation and frequent resort to verbalisms. Scharpf engages the reader with vivid snapshots ofrecognizable situations and feelings and thus the poems resonate with the poet's experience.
Marco Sonzogni
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