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Feel Happier in 9 Seconds
Et si le bonheur se cachait dans l'audace poétique et l'ironie mordante ? Feel Happier in 9 Seconds de Linda Besner bouscule les codes avec des poèmes aussi drôles que profonds, où la quête du bonheur croise la science, l'art et l'absurde.
by waterboarding daffodils.
My Buddha is landfill.
My mantra choked
from a bluebird's neck.
It's ruthless, the pursuit
of happiness. Eighteen
seconds have elapsed.
This collection is a universe where minimalism and maximalism work in harmony. Ethics, economics, glamour and alternative physics arejust a few of the vehicles Besner uses in her jaundiced pursuit of knowledge and joy. At the collection's core is a series of brilliantly illuminated poems patterned on a scientific study of synaesthesia and Fisher Price refrigerator magnets. Besner's courageous comparisons and musicality provide the critical happiness we all need.
`Besner's imagination doesn't appear to have an upper or outer limit ... Reading her poems is a bad trip and a transformational experience.'
- Ken Babstock
`Besner is one of the funniest poets writing in this country.'
- National Post
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Linda Besner est une poétesse canadienne reconnue pour son écriture audacieuse et son humour mordant. Son recueil Feel Happier in 9 Seconds, publié en 2017 aux éditions Coach House Books, a été finaliste du prix A.M. Klein. Elle est également l’auteure de The Id Kid, salué par la critique et classé parmi les meilleurs livres de poésie de l’année par le National Post. Son travail, à la fois drôle et profond, explore les limites de la langue et les paradoxes de la quête du bonheur.
newsmode Revue de presse
The emotional core of Feel Happier in Nine Seconds is a tension between the life of the serious (female) artist and the painful human consequences of melting relationships. Love disappoints or becomes a cheap trick, and the lovers who dot these poems are always getting some comeuppance, literal or otherwise.
Eerily, the reader begins to hear hues: the sharp explosiveness of red, the boggy undulation of green, the expansive liberation of blue. With Feel Happier in Nine Seconds, Linda Besner offers an intricately woven text and a novel approach to a heightened sensual reading experience.
Flog a sunbeam, harness a cloud. You should be feeling five times happier now: the world is your Kleenex.
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