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Popeye in Belgrade
James Sutherland-Smith
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Description for Popeye in Belgrade
Paperback. Features poems that emerge from places where political upheaval has recently occurred and records the aftershock of moral and spiritual earthquakes, often in intimate contexts. This book records the author's final detachment, in every sense of the word, from his country of origin. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 136.
Some months before the year of revolutions a late friend took a train into the heartland of what was held up as a model of despotism; a stopping train, in his compartment one other passenger clad in a blue suit needing thirty minutes attention from a stiff clothes brush. Opening a mildly indecent magazine this other proceeded to masturbate for two hours of the journey before alighting at a border post somewhere between pine forest and pine forest...from "The Blue Company". This book records the author's final detachment, in every sense of the word, from his country of origin. The ... Read more
Some months before the year of revolutions a late friend took a train into the heartland of what was held up as a model of despotism; a stopping train, in his compartment one other passenger clad in a blue suit needing thirty minutes attention from a stiff clothes brush. Opening a mildly indecent magazine this other proceeded to masturbate for two hours of the journey before alighting at a border post somewhere between pine forest and pine forest...from "The Blue Company". This book records the author's final detachment, in every sense of the word, from his country of origin. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
Number of Pages
98
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857549690
SKU
V9781857549690
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Ref
99-43
About James Sutherland-Smith
James Sutherland-Smith, born in Aberdeen in 1948, was educated at Leeds University. He lives in Slovakia, where he is a British Council Lecturer. He set up the first Creative Writing Course in English in Central Europe, using writers from Britain and Ireland. He and his wife are the principal translators of Slovak poetry into English. His previous collection, In the ... Read more
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