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Tribuna Magazine Article – Translation

A feature on my poetry written by Lana Durjava and illustrated by David Istvan published in the Slovenian magazine Tribuna. Below is the article translated to English from the Slovene by the author.

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Baudelaire of the 21st century. On acid.
Or Brentley Frazer or the man who knows too much

by Lana Durjava

Language is a virus. Language infects. Language alienates people and kills their authenticity. Language cleaves and generates repression. Language is the basic mechanism of subordination to the ruling power. Brentley Frazer, Australian poet, painter, photographer, Gonzo journalist and the founder and editor of literary magazine Retort Magazine, is all too aware of these roles and functions of language. But still. In his works the language is surely at least up to a certain level maintaining the characteristics mentioned above, but it is, nevertheless, becoming a tool of rebellion against the said, on the exploitation based principles. One could say that the language in Frazer’s poetry becomes a tool of exposing the true nature of postmodern relationships of power. Frazer is systematically and effectively using the discourse of oppressors in the fight against themselves.

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Tribuna Magazine

There is a feature article about my poetry in the June/July issue of Tribuna Magazine published in Slovenia. Click here for the website or here to jump straight to the .pdf version of the magazine. I don’t read Slovene so I’m not entirely sure what the article says, but below is a generally terrible translation provided by google.

21ST CENTURY BAUDELAIRE, OR, BRENTLEY FRAZER, THE MAN WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH – TRIBUNA MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2012

Language is a Virus. Language infecira. Language alienated people and kills its authenticity. Language is cleaved and generates suppressed. Language is the underlying relationship of subordination of the ruling power. And Brentley Frazer, Australian poet, painter, photographer, Gonzo journalist and the founder and editor of literary magazine Retorta Magazine, all of these roles and functions of language too well aware. But however. In the language of his works by maintaining the above characteristics, but is becoming a primary tool mainly rebellion against the said principles based on the exploitation ratio becomes a tool of exposing their true nature. Frazer discourse of oppression, systematically and effectively used in the fight against themselves.

Frazerja to the world the reality of our age is sick, where they are reduced to the status of an individual sitcom characters and where they are dominant role of the rules dictated by the interests of the categorical imperative megakorporacij and greed. By Phillip K. Dick, whose influenza in parts Frazerjevih highly noticeable, author agrees that modern society has largely principles based on the principle of imprisonment, the prisoners have never known freedom and because of the sovereign in the belief that they themselves actually nepodjarmljeni, independent and free.

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