Dead Cars in Managua |
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| Author:
| Ross, Stuart |
| Series title: | Punchy Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-897190-33-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2008 |
| Publisher: | DC Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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In Dead Cars in Managua so many things happen: a bug rides an ice cube, a squirrel takes responsibility, a piece of steak dreams it's a dog, and the detective grows more lost. Stuart Ross's sixth full-length poetry collection presents his most unsettling surrealistic observations to date. This book gathers together an absurdist Baedeker of image-driven prose poems about Managua, a blanched and incandescent sequence of affecting narrative poems about hospitals, and a selection of...
More DescriptionIn Dead Cars in Managua so many things happen: a bug rides an ice cube, a squirrel takes responsibility, a piece of steak dreams it's a dog, and the detective grows more lost. Stuart Ross's sixth full-length poetry collection presents his most unsettling surrealistic observations to date. This book gathers together an absurdist Baedeker of image-driven prose poems about Managua, a blanched and incandescent sequence of affecting narrative poems about hospitals, and a selection of action-packed surrealist poems where Ross shows his experimental New York School cards like never before. Dead Cars in Managua showcases Ross's unique ability to dissolve our common-sense understanding of the world, and distil a more potent and pleasurable truth from the remains of sense and reason.