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Book of Interfering Bodies

Book of Interfering Bodies

Current price: $15.95
Publication Date: March 8th, 2011
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN:
9780984459827
Pages:
120

Description

Beginning with an epigraph from the 9/11 Commission Report, The Book of Interfering Bodies re-imagines the poet as bureaucrat, barbaric writer, and terrorist. In this book, poems that invoke the role of the writer in society alternate with apocalyptic prose pieces that recall Borges' "Library of Babel." In the process, Borzutzky creates a 21st century response to our most enduing twentieth century writers, from Beckett to Lispector.

About the Author

DANIEL BORZUTZKY is a Chilean-American writer and translator living in Chicago. He is the author of The Ecstasy of Capitulation and Arbitrary Tales. His books of translation include Song for his Disappeared Love by Raúl Zurita and Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenún.