Paco's Atlas and Other Poems - Softcover

Thieme, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947403001 ISBN 13: 9781947403000

Verlag: Setu Publication, 2018

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John Thieme’s verse makes our flattened earth round again, reinventing it through a series of dreaming reveries that expand the possibilities of poetry and imagine new worlds into being. His poems are crowded with figures from different cultures and eras, among them Marco Polo’s Chinese mistress, Amazonian tribesmen, lacklustre vampires, an anachronistic courtly lover, the aged librarian of the library of Babel, Scheherazade, the Hindu goddess Saraswati, Ben Gunn, the apostle Thomas, a pragmatic dog and a quartet of rescued Iberian tortoises. Breaking boundaries and moving quietly between convention and innovation, the sparkling imagery of Paco’s Atlas upends habitual modes of perception. We come away from the collection with a broader sense of what it is to be human, our limits and our capabilities. A folio of maps in verse, Paco’s Atlas shape-shifts and spills over the borders and frames of atlases geographical, ethnographical, anatomical and zoological. It is filled with the wonder, the horror and the irony of maps: surreal dissections, absurd projections, encyclopaedic compressions, the circular logic of treasure-island shorelines that trap Ben Gunn like vampire bats under the sign of Nosferatu.Vassilena ParashkevovaJohn Thieme’s books include Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Postcolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place, The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Writing in English and studies of Derek Walcott, R.K. Narayan and V.S. Naipaul. His poetry and fiction have been published in numerous journals around the world, including Setu, The International Literary Quarterly, Asia Literary Review, Quick Fictions, Muse India and Southeast Asian Review of English. Paco’s Atlas is his first collection of poems.

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Famous poet John Thieme is a Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University and has also taught at the Universities of Guyana, North London and, as an annual Visiting Professor, the University of Turin. He has been contributing to debates on post-colonial writing since the 1980s and has particular interests in Anglophone Caribbean literature and Indian writing in English. He has also published widely on Canadian fiction. His books include The Web of Tradition: Uses of Allusion in V.S. Naipaul's Fiction (1987), The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1996), Derek Walcott (1999), Post-Colonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon (2001), Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary (2003) and R.K. Narayan (2007). He was Editor of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature from 1992 to 2011 and he is General Editor of the Manchester University Press Contemporary World Writers Series. His creative writing (poetry and short stories) has been published in Argentina, India, Italy, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA. His latest book Postcolonial Geographies: Out of Place is in press for publication by Palgrave Macmillan in May 2016.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Setu Publication
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1947403001
• ISBN 13: 9781947403000
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Sharma Aparajita
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 54
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