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Abstraktion Und Einfuhlung
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Abstraktion Und Einfuhlung
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Percival Everett
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:72 | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Poetry Literary studies - poetry and poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781933354705
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Classifications | Dewey:811.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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Imprint |
Akashic Books,U.S.
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Publication Date |
2 November 2008 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
If you said cubism' fifteen times, you would be getting close to some of what Percival Everett, a famous novelist and gifted painter himself, is playing with in this new book of poems. In words that mimic process, the poems here attempt to reverse the canvas, taking perspective and skewing it to reflect the world around it, spiraling into the work as a way to get out of it. Often what stands in the way of art is art itself, a lingering delusion that there is such a thing as beauty, especially universal beauty.'
Author Biography
Percival Everett is the author of fifteen works of fiction, among them GLYPH, WATERSHED, GOD'S COUNTRY and FRENZY. His most recent novel ERASURE won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and did little to earn him friends. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).
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