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Lost Cities Go to Paradise
Alicia Borinsky
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Description for Lost Cities Go to Paradise
Paperback. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. Translator(s): Galasso, Regina. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 299.
In Lost Cities Go to Paradise, poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. At the center of Borinsky's work are the cities, which are a masquerade of disaster and spectacle that moves through space and time. Within these cities reside a ... Read more
In Lost Cities Go to Paradise, poetry breaks into song and poetic prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. At the center of Borinsky's work are the cities, which are a masquerade of disaster and spectacle that moves through space and time. Within these cities reside a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780983322078
SKU
V9780983322078
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About Alicia Borinsky
Alicia Borinsky teaches Latin American and comparative literature at Boston University, where she also directs the Buenos Aires Cultural Studies Program. Her books include Frivolous Women and Other Sinners, also published by Swan Isle Press. Regina Galasso is assistant professor of comparative literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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