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Emporium
Ian Pindar
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Description for Emporium
Paperback. Emporium, Ian Pindar's first collection of poems, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
Emporium, Ian Pindar's first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl in blue jeans, a wasp, two lascivious figs and a god who wanders shopping arcades 'enhaloed in black flames of longing and dread'. A chain letter travels across centuries of poetry, from Langland to Maxine Chernoff; deep in a snowy forest, seen only by wolves, a mysterious machine is resonating - Pindar maps a surreal hinterland where the dark humour of absurdity lies in wait. ... Read more
Emporium, Ian Pindar's first collection, is stocked with curiosities, jokes and horrors. Step through the door and discover Big Bumperton on his bicycle, Mrs Beltinska in her bath, Monsieur P. on holiday, a transfixed girl in blue jeans, a wasp, two lascivious figs and a god who wanders shopping arcades 'enhaloed in black flames of longing and dread'. A chain letter travels across centuries of poetry, from Langland to Maxine Chernoff; deep in a snowy forest, seen only by wolves, a mysterious machine is resonating - Pindar maps a surreal hinterland where the dark humour of absurdity lies in wait. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
83
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770653
SKU
V9781847770653
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-20
About Ian Pindar
Ian Pindar was born in London in 1970. He is the author of Joyce (Haus, 2004), a biography of James Joyce, and co-translated The Three Ecologies (Continuum, 2000) by the radical French theorist Felix Guattari. He was an editor at J. M. Dent, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and the Harvill Press, where he edited Haruki Murakami, Anna Politkovskaya and W. G. ... Read more
Reviews for Emporium
It was about time for somebody to be channelling Eliot, maybe Stevens, Laforgue, and the Metaphysicals to such clashing effect: 'bright as a seedsman's packet', with unexpected timbres and sonorities sabotaged by glockenspiel accents. Pindar is just right for the job. JOHN ASHBERY In this sparkling debut collection Ian Pindar brilliantly fulfils Verlaine's injunction to the poet to take ... Read more