{"product_id":"dan-disney-accelerations-inertias-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","title":"Dan Disney, accelerations \u0026 inertias (Hardback - limited edition of 50 copies)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for 2022 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e moves with the start-stop rhythm of a taxi battling traffic in Dan Disney’s adopted Seoul. Filled with that sprawling megalopolis’ vibrance and surprise, and steeped in Korea’s poetic traditions, this is a hyperactive book for a hyperactive age. ' Queensland Literary Awards judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Dan Disney’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e dissects the psychogeography of information, knowledge and lived experience of place and time into glistening fragments. These fragments cluster into channels of almost-narrative, rethinking the vivid experience of humanity in a world that is simultaneously ancient and hyper-modern. The ‘I’ in these poems is a distiller and reshaper of observation, a protagonist exploring the ethics of knowledge and creative production in the time of digital capital. The balance in this collection between keen observation of ever-changing social modalities and a recognition of the internality of perception allows Disney to fashion a visionary poetics that delves into the nature of consciousness.  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The collection is energised by its respectful and adventurous engagement with the traditional Korean sijo form. Disney works on the edge of the sijo, testing its aphoristic nature, experimenting with machine translations and working to question and destabilise the reader’s relationship with language. In doing so Disney delivers language which is pared back, intricately crafted and committed to both questioning and recording the kinetic experience of the twenty-first century. This collection is utterly of its time, of the now, genuinely humanistic, deeply aware of place and the intricacies of responsibility and care. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e balances mobility and stillness, gnomic contraction and allusive expansion, blazing ambition and idiosyncratic humour. The poems’ exploration of observing offers a radical consideration of the poetic ‘I’, and its place in the human and more-than-human worlds. All this is managed with deftness and aplomb, in a collection that is surprising, radical, provocative and tender. This is a book about poetry’s breath and its potential to open up the world in exhilarating ways.' \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-winner-accelerations-inertias\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/awards\/kenneth-slessor-prize-poetry\/2022-winner-accelerations-inertias\"\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards judges\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Dan Disney's \u003cem\u003eaccelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable work of self-critiquing, inverting hybridity. This is a restive book in which new skyscrapers and museums, temples and consumer fetishism are complementary, and not necessarily in tension. In these ‘distillations’ there is no quietism, and the ‘museum of the future’ is a question with fear and doubt in the air about it. The key to this work – the best of Disney’s, I think – remains the critique of a crisis of capital, a deep respect for environment, a deep respect for culture and its complexities, a wonder mixed with a toughness of observation and understanding of what being an observer means.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Disney's previous full-length collections are\u003cem\u003e and then when the\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), \u003cem\u003eMannequin’s Guide to Utopias\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), and \u003cem\u003eEither, Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). Alongside an experimental verse novella, \u003cem\u003eReport from a border\u003c\/em\u003e (2016, co-devised with John Warwicker), he is the editor of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Babel\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and co-edited \u003cem\u003eWriting to the Wire\u003c\/em\u003e (2016, with Kit Kelen) and \u003cem\u003eNew Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, with Matthew Hall). He teaches with the English Literature Program at Sogang University, in Seoul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDan Disney,\u003cem\u003e accelerations \u0026amp; inertias\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2021. 148mm x 210mm. 80pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-33-8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRelease date: July 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39980577292445,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Disneycover_6e7d6ec5-f77c-42d0-b880-2ea6397ef01d.jpg?v=1621546038","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/es\/products\/dan-disney-accelerations-inertias-hardback-limited-edition-of-50-copies","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}