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The Politics of Knives

Jonathan Ball

Editorial: Coach House Books

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Winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry (Manitoba Book Awards)
   
If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.
Disponible desde: 06/09/2012.
Longitud de impresión: 96 páginas.

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