Seeing Red |
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| Author:
| Cooley, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88801-277-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2003 |
| Publisher: | Turnstone Press Canada
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.95 |
Book Description:
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Nominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards)."Dennis Cooley's deft-and-epic re-imagining of the Dracula 'film noir' reveals a Romantic-rhapsodic Count, a man as frenzied as Byron and as philosophical/ funny as Borges. In this chic, violent, sexy narrative, Cooley seizes poetry by the throat, hypnotizing its fans/ fanatics with his audacious, dazzling, and dastardly wordplay--part e.e. cummings, part Dennis Lee, and all excellent....
More DescriptionNominated for the Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards)."Dennis Cooley's deft-and-epic re-imagining of the Dracula 'film noir' reveals a Romantic-rhapsodic Count, a man as frenzied as Byron and as philosophical/ funny as Borges. In this chic, violent, sexy narrative, Cooley seizes poetry by the throat, hypnotizing its fans/ fanatics with his audacious, dazzling, and dastardly wordplay--part e.e. cummings, part Dennis Lee, and all excellent. seeing red is bloody brilliant."--George Elliot Clarke, author of Execution Poems