Permanent Volta
Rosie Stockton
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Permanent Volta
Published
May 18, 2021
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Pages
120
ISBN-13
9781643620756
ISBN-10
1643620754
Description
Permanent Volta is a book of poems about constraint and debt, as much as it is about excess, credit, loving luxury, and hating work. These are love poems about how queer intimacies invent political and poetic forms, how gender deviance imagines post-sovereign presents and futures. Taking cues from Rosa Luxemburg's birdsongs and the syntax of invasive flowers, these poems strive to love lack. If history sees writers as tops and muses as bottoms, these poems are motivated by refusal, inversion, and evading representation. In Permanent Volta, the muses demand wages, and then they demand the world. Full of bad grammar, strange sonnets, and truncated sestinas, these poems are melancholy and militant, lazy and anti-state, greedy and collective. Permanent Volta is for anyone motivated by the homoerotic and intimate etymology of comrade: one who shares the same room. -- Publisher's description.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages are in Permanent Volta?
This edition of Permanent Volta has approximately 120 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
How long does it take to read Permanent Volta?
For most readers, Permanent Volta typically takes between 2h 30m and 1h 40m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 30,000 words and common reading speeds.
Here's a detailed breakdown: • Continuous reading at 250 WPM: approximately 2h 0m of focused reading • Casual reading (30 minutes/day): you could finish in roughly 4 days • Estimated word count: 30,000 words
Your individual reading time will vary based on your personal reading pace, the amount of daily reading time, and your familiarity with the subject matter.
What is the word count of Permanent Volta?
The estimated word count for Permanent Volta is approximately 30,000 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
This is an approximation — actual word count may vary based on font size, formatting, edition, and the presence of illustrations or charts.
Who is the author of Permanent Volta?
Permanent Volta was written by Rosie Stockton.
When was Permanent Volta published?
The publication date for this specific edition is May 18, 2021. The original work may have been published on a different date.