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Eric Ormsby The Baboons Of Hada

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Description for Eric Ormsby The Baboons Of Hada Paperback. The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons, the collection moves on to explore a world of intricate wonders and memories: the grandeur of noses, the mayonnaise tornado whipped up by a kitchen whisk, the gossip gravediggers whisper to the dead. An American childhood and kinships are evoked with loving particularity, alongside a flamboyant caliph, Lazarus and his disenchanted wife, and the great medieval Arab poet al-Mutanabbi writing in exile lines that reverberate across 'all the empty places' of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
118
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770660
SKU
V9781847770660
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99-24

About Eric Ormsby
Eric Ormsby, born in Atlanta in 1941, is a poet and scholar. He was a longtime resident of Montreal, where he was the Director of University Libraries and subsequently a professor of Islamic thought at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Presently, he lives and writes in London, where he is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of ... Read more

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