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A series of murders targets the nation's best known poets.
Remarkably, they are being murdered in a way that reflects the
style of their poems. Victor Priest is given the task of finding
the murderer but when a car bomb is discovered in his car, by the
eccentric and hilarious young couple turned detectives, a desperate
confrontation takes place
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Censored Poems (Paperback)
Marin Sorescu; Translated by John Hartley Williams, Hilde Ottschofski
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Romania's comic genius Marin Sorescu was so popular during the
worst of the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in
football stadiums, and his books sold hundreds of thousands of
copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical
of the regime, Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could
read other meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition.
All this time, however, he was also writing the 'secret poems' he
did not dare publish then because - as Dan Zamfirescu commented -
'the gesture would have been the equivalent of suicide'. Censored
Poems is a selection from two books published in Bucharest after
1989, including borderline poems censored by the authorities as
well as the riskier secret poems censored by the author.
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Canada (Paperback)
John Hartley Williams
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In Canada, poems arrive out of the ether like the fabled,
lantern-jawed Mountie coming to the rescue out of nowhere. Others
are on their way back into the ether, transmissions from the brain
of an uneasy redman. These are poems that make you feel the hairs
on a pony's neck.
Canada opens in the backwoods of autobiography and narrative,
then reports crisply on calls of sex and desire. After crossing the
frontier, a final movement blows innocence off the map for good and
all.
A collection of 99 sonnets arranged in three sections of 33 sonnets
each. It offers an exploration of the fourteen line restriction -
traditional octet/sestet shapings, no paragraphing at all, strict
rhyme, loose rhyme, and no rhyme at all. Williams writes: 'The
pistol sonnets were originally embedded within a larger book called
Canada that appeared in 1997. I wrote a piece for the Poetry Book
Society Bulletin at the time describing the book as an act of
homage to the surrealist practice of automatism. In fact, I only
employed automatic writing for the final section of that book. In
writing Pistol Sonnets, I was struggling to identify and give
expression to unrealised wishes and desires, a practice that is
also surrealist at heart (a philosophical strategy, not a matter of
style or artistic fashion). Williams has published many collections
of poetry.
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