John Nyman's Players is staged in an urban dreamscape, fusing popular culture with narratives about hand-to-hand combat, how to hustle, and high art. Taking lyrical cues from hip-hop, Nyman's poetry bends genre expectations, unravelling with a flow that's both unique and engaging.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Edited by Jim Johnstone"--Title page verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781926794761 9781926794303
- LCCN
- PR9199.N96
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2016eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (95 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238165 (OCoLC)1011608990 (CaOOCEL)454234
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 7
- Two False Starts 10
- The Mole Rat 12
- Understandable 13
- The Losers 14
- To KiD CuDi 16
- Edward Hopper, Nighthawks 17
- How to Hustle 19
- Bouquet 21
- Drunken Master 22
- Nosferatu 23
- Myself as a Dictator 24
- Exit, 25
- Drunken Master’s Apology 27
- Fast Breaks 28
- Future Statement 30
- Naked Baby 31
- TV’s Jon Dore on Jon Dore and The Jon Dore Television Show 33
- Bibliophile 35
- When You Need Water 36
- Runtime 37
- Recorded Instructions for a Secret Agent 38
- Safety Card Translation, Emergency Exit A 39
- Poem the Moment After 42
- Humble 43
- Interbella: 44
- Not One 46
- Words for Rain 47
- Players 48
- I’ve Started Waking Up Earlier 50
- Picasso’s Drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza 51
- After Chance 52
- Distracted 54
- Studies in Environmentality 55
- Advice from My Exes 58
- Love Song for Kazoo 61
- I Go to See Them Perform Surgery on My Daughter 63
- Vertigo 65
- Three Night Buses 66
- Epistemologies 68
- For MF DOOM 71
- Connections 72
- Lush 74
- Goodbye 75
- Addenda: 78
- On a Broken Gif 80
- On the Ground 82
- Notes 83
- Acknowledgements 85
- Desk Index 87