In on the Great Joke by Laura Broadbent
By Laura Broadbent
What do you get if you happen to pass Lao Tzu and an software for a college educating software? What do you get in case you supply W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the facility to talk from the afterlife? What occurs if a woman is stopped at a purple gentle for a complete 12 months? In at the nice shaggy dog story is a palace of hybridity, the place movie constitution informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, the essay recalibrates the funny story. Broadbent has lent her ear to the lifeless, the dwelling, the unvoiced, to provide us the punchline of what it potential to be intellectually alive.
Laura Broadbent is the writer of Oh There you're i cannot See You Is It Raining?, which received the 2012 Robert Kroetsch Award for cutting edge Poetry. She lives in Montreal, Queceb, the place she is operating on her PhD in Literature.
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