The Kamikaze Mind

Description

The Kamikaze Mind is a new form of novel, a deranged form of dictionary, a poem for the open minded, the hyper textual and the restless unconventional thinker. It is genuinely experimental and yet a highly accessible and witty work which crosses the boundaries between prose and poetry to deliver a text truly for the 21st century.The Kamikaze Mind documents an astronaut who launched himself into a black hole. The recovered fragments of his mind have been organised alphabetically."Through an accumulation of broken meanings and definitions, moments of insight, panic, wisdom and longing, Richard James Allen's The Kamikaze Mind is a fierce and luminous examination of identity in a floating and disintegrated world. Sharp, fun, yet also intensely open and exposed, Allen constructs an astonishing lexicon which enables the reader to re-think and question the notion of a delimiting self. This innovative and resourceful web of interpretations reminds us that we are all part of a greater field of interlocking processes, but, hold onto your Chambers, readers! - because this wordbook of the mind can also be as freakish, whimsical and as inconceivable as a gaggle of quarks. Yet it's also an edgy read, complex and sometimes sad - and open both to pleasure and surrender. A truly innovative and original book." (Judith Beveridge)

Australian-born poet Richard James Allen has combined a unique international career as a writer, performer, choreographer and filmmaker. His poetry, plays, performance texts and films have been published, broadcast, performed and screened in over twenty countries over the last twenty years. Richard has recently completed a number of poetry-based films for his company, The Physical TV Company, which have shown at more than 100 festivals and screenings around the world, and broadcast on television in Australia, Europe and China.