Andre Bagoo

Trick Vessels

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Produktbeschreibung

"Reading André Bagoo is an experience like none other. He is a true Caribbean poet - the reader is lapped in gorgeous, disturbing words; immersed in a nurturing, disintegrative sea. He is also, and marvellously, a poet who speaks to our times. Bagoo's background in law and journalism informs the disabused eye he brings to his appreciation of the real circumstances of our tricky, threatened humanity. With the loving touch of a magician, he releases our world from surveillance. These poems sing of those ordinary moments 'when the creature is vulnerable', knowing that the 'key to unlocking mystery is not making a fuss'. Entering Trick Vessels is a voyage into the fairytale cavern where nervous trees bear gems in a perpetually fruiting night. I urge you to give yourself over to this book. You will re-emerge into your daily living, astonished and tender." -Vahni Capildeo "Aptly titled are these poems - they are like vials without bottoms... held up, looked through, a universe can be discerned. They pour and continue to pour a mixture of guile and subterfuge, language that contradicts, and bargains for its own sanity, contents in volume denying the size of these trick vessels." -Mervyn Taylor "Bagoo excavates a land of erasures and decodes 'the cipher for these trick vessels'. Yet, these ciphers provide, not a hoped for return, but a foothold from which to climb into the present. In this book, Bagoo has delivered us a new way forward." -Jim Goar

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9781848612037
• ISBN-10: 1848612036
• Artikelnr.: 35318569

Autorenporträt

Andre Bagoo is a poet and writer from Trinidad, the author of several books of poetry including Trick Vessels (2012), BURN (Shearsman, 2015) and Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, St Petersburg Review, PN Review, POETRY, and The Poetry Review. He was awarded The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize in 2017.His essay collection, The Undiscovered Country, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2020 and won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction. His fiction debut, The Dreaming, is forthcoming from Peepal Tree."Any book of queer stories with a Kate Bush title reference has a lot to live up to, but Bagoo's collection-witty, intelligent, humane-is so inventive, so full of surprises at every turn, that I found myself wanting to return to his voice again and again. Bagoo is working out queer cultural concerns in an honest way here, and it's truly exciting to witness his rare talent developing with each story. Read this now."- GARRARD CONLEY, AUTHOR OF BOY ERASED, ON THE DREAMING"A manifesto, a literary criticism, a personal chronicle of literary life, a book of days, a stage wherein famous writers such as Walcott, Thomas, Gunn, Espada, and others become actors, The Undiscovered Country discovers many things, but one thing for sure: Andre Bagoo is a fearless, brilliant mind. He can take us from the formal critical perspective to new futurist "visual essay", to verse essay, to sweeping historical account that is unafraid to go as far in time as Columbus and as urgently-of-our moment as Brexit-all of it with precision and attentiveness to detail that is as brilliant as it is startling. Bravo."- ILYA KAMINSKY ON THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY"Bagoo's understated music combines with striking imagery; subtle and various, he explores attachments, delusions, obsessions, hauntings, rituals, griefs and dreams."- MICHAEL LOVEDAY REVIEWS BURN IN MAGMA