DaDaDa [Paperback]

Catherine Daly (Author)

Book Description

Series: Salt Modern Poets S. | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

This triology of poetry manuscripts includes poems that add personal emotion and interest into what has become quite dry experimental poetry, and visual and sonic interest back into melodramatic narrative / confessional modes. While its main appeal is to play and pleasure, this verse may prove challenging for beginning readers of poetry while it will interest those who generally do not read poetry but read classics, science & technology, experimental fiction, criticism / critical theory, and philosophy.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Cavernous and electric, DaDaDa unfolds as a hypnotically twisted love tome investigating the r/elation between language systems and the erotics of communication. Plotting the truncated lives of letters, as mistresses, matrices, vessels, vials, viols, vile induces, indices, Catherine Daly's passionate tripartite tour de force rages with linguistic virtuosity as a "cross-stitched sampler" of contemporary culture, "hot sync simulacra," literary heresies. -- Adeena Karasick Seldom is such a commodious pathway opened with a first book. It is, as its author says, "Huge toroid / experiments." She's right about that; look up "toroid." Catherine Daly is the "epideictic girl" of her verse's universe. Any book that places Georgia O'Keefe in the same neighborhood with Ann Corio has a thing or two to tell us about telling, about "deep regional feeling," about aboutness. -- Aldon L. Nielsen

From the Publisher

Catherine Daly’s constructed a reader’s playground by vatic, cathartic rapine of canonical texts including the "Amoretti" of Edmund Spenser, the Greek Anthology, and the Norton Anthology of English Literature; religious women’s dictation, testimony, and writing; wireless communication, slide shows, truth tables, and Boolean algebra; high culture sculpture and junk culture celebrities and plots. Included in the three sections of DaDaDa is hagiography of interior decorators and fashion designers, OuLiPonian manipulations of anonymous medieval prayers about the passion, a "woman’s epic" poem based on the writings of Marguerite Porete which erases, creative etymology, quotes from female country and western lyricists, and instructions for making a Palm Pilot vibrate, all ultimately examining truth, freedom, art, craft, and other ideas. Daly rewrites as reading, as performance, as decoding, recoding, and encoding. This post-language poetry is devoted to sound play and pleasure. It is religious poetry underpinned by fervid atheism, literary criticism as heresy, confessional verse biography, serious poetry riddled with cheap puns.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing; 1st Ed. edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1876857951
• ISBN-13: 978-1876857950
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,953,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Catherine Daly was born in Decatur, IL. For twenty years she worked as an IT professional and taught literature and creative writing on the college level. She lives in Los Angeles.