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Or, an Autobiography

Author :  Fitch, Toby

Product Details

Country
Australia
Publisher
Upswell Press, Australia
ISBN 9781764239707
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2026
Bib. Info 116 pages, 23cm
Categories Literature
Product Weight 240 gms.
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Product Description

Or, An Autobiography explores in poetry fluidities of self, body and imagination. Its central book-length poem 'The Or Tree' is an alternative version of the fictional poem, 'The Oak Tree', which was written by Virginia Woolf's character Orlando (who in turn was a fictional rendition of Vita Sackville-West). 'The Oak Tree' takes Orlando over 300 years to write, in which time they live through multiple eras, burn their poetic oeuvre, have various affairs with poets and critics, a queen, and change gender from male to female. 'The Or Tree' is an assemblage and erasure poem, resurrected chronologically from the six chapters of a burnt copy of Orlando: A Biography. It is an homage to androgyny and the non-binary, or rather, an expression of the fluidity we are all capable of. 'Or' is an alter ego and character in the poem (pronouns they/them), as well as a conjunction, and a ghost. 'The Or Tree' is complemented by an "understorey", a poetic essay that underscores and intertwines with the poem across each chapter in a radical play on the confessional and citational.

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