Alasdair Paterson

Broschiertes Buch

On the Governing of Empires

Beschreibung

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names of British moths, Alasdair Paterson brings a Byzantine range of techniques - cut-and-mosaic, palimpsest dialectic, diplomatic transplant and induced mutation - to a series of innocent texts, most without a prior thought of poetry in their heads, to build an indispensible vademecum for the imperially and post-imperially inclined.

Autor

Alasdair Paterson was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Exeter. He won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1976; On the Governing of Empires was his his first collection for more than 20 years. The intervening time was spent directing the work of academic libraries in Britain and Ireland, and travelling to Samarkand, Salonika, Stamboul, Siberia, Swaziland, San Francisco, Sidmouth and many other places not beginning with an S. Since 'Empires' appeared Shearsman Books has released another three volumes of his work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9781848611160
• ISBN-10: 1848611161
• Artikelnr.: 29497476