Father`s on the Phone with the Flies

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Father`s on the Phone with the Flies
Herta Muller, Thomas Cooper
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4 Oct 2022 UK
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9781803090450
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An unexpected, exciting work from one of the most protean writers ever to win the Nobel Prize. To create the poems in this collection, Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in the form of a collage. Father' s on the Phone with the Flies presents seventy-three of Muller' s collage poems for the first time in English translation, alongside full-color reproductions of the originals. Muller takes full advantage of the collage form, generating poems rich in wordplay, ambiguity, and startling, surreal metaphors-the disruption and dislocation at their core rendered visible through stark contrasts in color, font, and type size. Liberating words from conformity and coercion, Muller renders them fresh and invests them forcefully with personal experience.
"By any measure, Father' s on the Phone with the Flies deserves to be on the list of the best poetry books of 2018. " * Rain Taxi *
Herta Muller was born in a German-speaking community in western Romania in 1953. She published her first collection of short stories in 1982. In 1987, she left Romania for West Berlin, where she continued to write and publish. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Thomas Cooper has translated works of poetry and prose in German and Hungarian by many celebrated contemporary authors.
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ISBN-13: 9781803090450
Published: 4 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seagull Books London
Publisher: Seagull Books London
Format: Paperback
Height: 202mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 226g
Pages: 200

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