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Poetry. A book-length narrative poem, or a novella-in-verse if you
prefer, HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC is a novel-poem with a
literary sci-fi bent, a shadow-text to Oedipus written in a style
that is up-to-the-minute. With wit, dynamism, and cutting senses of
urgency and humor, Iowa Prize winner Peter Jay Shippy tells the
tale of Isaac Makepeace Watt, a melancholy man living in a Thebes
that is much like contemporary America. The House of Cadmus still
rules (and will fall), but they only appear in the poem as media
white noise. Isaac's concerns are personal, his father's illness
and his own moral decrepitude. There are talking monkeys, plagues,
oracles, and nano-robots-you know, the usual agoramania.
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''Ah, writ happens.'' Like the con men who rely on thieves' Latin
to ply their trade, the poems in Peter Jay Shippy's award-winning
collection don't play well with other poems. They are difficult.
They rave. They are unsettling and blunt. They crash cars and ride
tsunamis and hitch rides on tugs. They also provide a contemporary,
ironic, and tender view of America, all the while layering
wordplay, cleverness, and sentiment. Shippy's narrators ''dance
like night writing''; they ''witness the reverse / side of
actions'' and ''take a walk on the wing''; they feel ''nothing but
articulation'' and attach ''our planet to the highest branch'';
they ''have a good feeling about most birds, and trust / that they
are a friend to man.'' In other words, their condition is
Beckettian, but they speak like one of Sam Shepherd's dusty road
angels.
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