Dompteuse

by Andrea Brady

New British Poets No. 4 // NEW BRITISH POETS is a series of chapbooks edited by Stephen Collis and Amy De Ath that brings new work by British poets to North American readers. Natural predators and barbarians, philosophers and generals, flowering plants and carbine engines were the constituents of Hannah Höch's Dada piecework. Collage was the medium in which Höch could outwit fascism, the triviality of the new woman, and the mechanisation of daily life. Her art of the cut-up begins in curiosity and attention and breaks through the mundane with discipline and repeated scrutiny. The result is a body of work which recharges the commodified image, and the commodified person, with a hot alien energy. This sequence of poems responds to Höch's photomontages, adapting and interrogating their language of banality and exoticism to think about the passions of the 21st century. Producing, reproducing, scrutinizing and compiling, these poems seek out the horizon of unlimited freedom which recedes along the lines of the clip.

29 pages, Chapbook

Published January 1, 2014

About the author

Andrea Brady is an American poet and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. She studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge. Her academic work focuses on contemporary poetry and the early modern period. She is the curator of the Archive of the Now and the co-editor (with Keston Sutherland) of Barque Press.