Ownself Say Ownself: New and Selected Poems

Ownself Say Ownself: New and Selected PoemsOwnself Say Ownself is a chaotic collection of new and selected poetry by Joshua Ip. Half of it is 44 poems salvaged from the award winning, out of print wilderness of his first five ish collections, marked up with mischievous metric marginalia in the newly invented form of the tilde (tl; dr). The next half is 44 new translations, performance pieces and formal experiments written over the course of a practice research PhD. So you get the best of six

Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery

poured fuel on the U

Foliard vividly illustrates how the British first defined the Middle East as a geopolitical and cartographic region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through their imperial maps

they often adopted the missionaries’ own tools and strategies

reaching far beyond our childhoods

the Perfect Human (al-Insan al-Kamil) or the attainment of the Praiseworthy Station (al-Maqam al-Mahmud) of which the Prophet Muhammad is the highest example

because it is guided by prior expectation

from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers

if not scorched

Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture

This novella was the winner of the Prix des Nouvelles littéraires when it was first published in French in 1974

the author of the fateful short story