Collected Contraptions
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84777-857-4
- EAN: 9781847778574
- Produktnummer: 16394738
- Verlag: Carcanet
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 871 KB
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