Fat Chance [electronic resource] : : Journalism Poems
Kent McCarter2024
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In Fat Chance , poet and publisher Kent MacCarter investigates variations on how
non-fiction can be reported, taking an uncanny look into sole survivors of major
airline crashes, a memoir approach at the surgical complication known as
gossypiboma – where an instrument is left behind in a body cavity after surgery
– a recount of marketing tactics for children’s toys and more. Columns of
justified prose lure you into the familiar channels of reporting facts; you
could be mistaken for believing there is no poet or poetry here at all.
Yet, the primary purpose of Fat Chance is not the transmission of information,
and it thrives on contradiction. Contrary to the title’s colloquial meaning, it
offers you ample possibility. Here, the journalistic and the poetic collide to
liberate language from truth so you can wander in the wide, bountiful space
between. Emotion is denuded from the stories, forcing you to fill the void with
your own suppositions and terrors … rubbernecking at yo...
Main title:
Fat Chance [electronic resource] : : Journalism Poems / Kent McCarter
Author:
Kent McCarter, Author
Imprint:
Perth, W.A : Upswell Publishing, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781743823477
Language:
English
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BRN:
529979
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