The Ubiquitous Big

You've heard of The Big Sleep , right? Well, it's sixty years later and time for The Ubiquitous Big . This book, the second from Calgary poet Ian Samuels, explores the language of certain influential aspects of early to mid-twentieth-century popular culture. Yes, folks, you get Arcana , based on the cultural fascination with war drawn from a kaleidoscope of incidental sources and overheard conversations; Personality , a take on the fashion cycle accessed through an old cosmetology textbook; and The Ubiquitous Big , which takes on cinema and gender through a scrambled, augmented and mythologized series of quotes from classic film noir. The result is a playful and humorous book of poetry with a serious trigger finger. So shut up, get in the car, and sit back for a romp through some of the funniest language to pass through time and expose the myth of its own mythos.