James Womack

Misprint (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'The only end of writing,’ Dr Johnson said, 'is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.’ Misprint offers the reader countries and languages perceived through the eyes of youth and loss. Untimely deaths and memories of far-off lands abound, some dreamed, some lived. In this first collection, James Womack plays with ideas of tradition, lightly conjuring heavy themes, and makes a bow to pulp culture. He ferries us between Russia, Spain and North Korea and the differently 'real’ virtual environments of film, dream, ghosts, the North Korean Press Agency. 'Eurydice’, the concluding sequence, draws the different strands of the collection together. We end up dislocated: bewildered but rather happier about the future. As Mr Edwards said to the Great Cham: 'I, too, Sir, in my time have tried being a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness kept creeping in.’

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847776693
• Artikelnr.: 38355623

Autorenporträt

James Womack is an English literature professor at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, and a poet whose work has been featured in the bestselling anthology New Poetries V. He also runs Nevsky Prospects, a publishing house which produces Spanish translations of Russian literature.