Peter Mccarey

Collected Contraptions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Peter McCarey's first full collection, comprising work from his five pamphlets, is an exhilarating journey on the U-bahns and runways of language: 'In a matter of hours / they can take you anywhere’. Collected Contraptions opens with water, rain and shadows; the inscription of 'the singer's mark’ from the lost language of the Indus Valley civilisation shines from a Shakespeare sonnet; we are caught in a sci-fi spaghetti Western; a shady Czech smuggles a golem and a robot into pre-massacre Rwanda. Language shape-shifts, reinvents itself, before going on another road trip where stories are recited backwards and fast forward. Last is 'Tantris’, an epic of intricate narrative whose message couldn't be more simple: 'Don't go: don't let the morning/ Turn your head with her shivering, thin grace.’

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847778574
• Artikelnr.: 38355000

Autorenporträt

Peter McCarey is a poet, translator, and interpreter. He currently manages language services for an international organization in Geneva. His printed work has given rise to an audiovisual installation called The Syllabary, which receives up to half a million hits per month at www.knot.ch. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians.