Alan Gilbert - The Everyday Life of Design (2020 First Edition)

Alan Gilbert - The Everyday Life of Design (2020 First Edition)

Alan Gilbert - • Spoonbill Books

ISBN-10: 1782584935 · ISBN-13: 978‑1782584933

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Ranging fast and low across current social, physical, and media landscapes, Alan Gilbert's sprawling book of poems, THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF DESIGN, finds its subjects everywhere and nowhere. Trapped in a world structured to extract as much data and capital as possible, these poems inhabit tenuous spaces while also seeking to elude them and propose a better future. While the book's strategy may be to document obsessively, the aim is not to record the received, but to overturn it and move beyond the damage it has done. Bleak, funny, elegiac, absurd, politically engaged, despairing, and hopeful, THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF DESIGN opens wide to the world in a variety of styles and voices. Out of print first edition of an ever-expanding epic poem, now published through Winter Editions.

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