A Book of Chinese Whispers: Selected Prose - Softcover

Smith, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0906427932 ISBN 13: 9780906427934

Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1987

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Críticas:

Ken Smith was a great poet... His last retrospective collection, "Shed", confirmed the immense power of his poetry. --Jon Glover, Guardian

Ken Smith brought an original and memorable voice to poetry in Britain. He spent his writing life not so much swimming against the tide as ignoring the stream's existence... He was one of those by whom the language lives. --Sean O'Brien, Independent

His poems are squeezed out from under the unrelenting pressures of history, politics and the natural elements... some of his poems read like translations from war-ravaged Eastern Europe. --Charles Boyle, London Magazine

Reseña del editor:

These prose pieces develop areas and images encountered elsewhere in Smith's poetry. Some are fictions, some fables, some prose poems, some ill-tempered jokes, some existential romances with mundane reality. As in the game of Chinese Whispers, messages are passed, repeated, misheard, misremembered, delicately tampered with, and fiddled with in the interests of politics, commerce and the pursuit of power. Even the language is suspect, as are our perceptions. Our hero struggles to survive against all the odds, invited apparently to forget all he knows and begin again at the beginning. Or at the end. Smith writes in the radical tradition of Borges, Brautigan, Burroughs, and Buster Keaton.

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• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0906427932
• ISBN 13: 9780906427934
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160