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Reading the Bible Backwards (Unabridged) by Robert Priest

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Reading the Bible Backwards (Unabridged)

Author
Robert Priest
Narrator
Robert Priest
Publisher
a misFit book
Publish Date
30 January 2022
Run Time
1 hour 23 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Poetry
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Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up this eagerly anticipated new collection of poems by Robert Priest. By throwing the Bible and other cultural narratives on the turntable and spinning them backwards, Priest unleashes surprisingly new but strangely familiar music and meaning. Whether the movements are sideways, inverted, or omni-directional, his satire has never been sharper - or darker. Ultimately, though, Priest's lyric voice has never been more finely tuned or elegant, especially in the wonderfully groundbreaking "I Love You Forwards" poems that afford this book its remarkable balance.

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Author
Robert Priest
Narrator
Robert Priest
Duration
1 hour 23 minutes
Release Date
30 January 2022
ISBN
9781773057439
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
a misFit book
Genre
Poetry

Synopsis

Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up this eagerly anticipated new collection of poems by Robert Priest. By throwing the Bible and other cultural narratives on the turntable and spinning them backwards, Priest unleashes surprisingly new but strangely familiar music and meaning. Whether the movements are sideways, inverted, or omni-directional, his satire has never been sharper - or darker. Ultimately, though, Priest's lyric voice has never been more finely tuned or elegant, especially in the wonderfully groundbreaking "I Love You Forwards" poems that afford this book its remarkable balance.

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