Play Yr Kardz Right

These deeply sound-based poems perform the linguistic athletics of English-to-English immigration: 'I begun in uh faild sosighity/ with mushee piez / & fried pineappulz.' This book dishes a sauce of green slime, trailers, ducktails, and fantasy: that of both sex and magic. The titles swirl with pop culture -Pretty in Pink, Body Snatchers, Beaches, Chariots of Fire - making the whole collection hum with non-sentimental 90s nostalgia, playful and pointing at the same time: Ronuld RAYGUN. This book is a delightful, full-bodied, fluid-rich study of how th past still exists in the present: 'my bag / 4ever / uh rottun banana. Laura Wetherington

• | Author: Marcus Slease
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 106 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1974551148
• | ISBN-13: 9781974551149