Foreign Matter & Other Poems Hazel Arnett Ervin Elizabeth Markovits argues that the

Elizabeth Markovits argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns

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Foreign Matter & Other Poems Hazel Arnett Ervin Elizabeth Markovits argues that the'Ouyang Yu's Foreign Matter rages against the vacuity of suburban life alert to every racist slight with a linguistic playfulness that shuffles and bounces through English language via the "gibberish keyings of an irrelevant computer". Here Australia is often depicted as an unabashed identity less dystopia a volatile yet bland melting pot of adopted and imported cultures a "prisonful" of freedom. From Melbourne's bay of "muddy fury" to uneventful