How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic
Peter Jay Shippy(Author)
Rose Metal Press
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9789848-2-3 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. A book-length narrative poem, or a novella-in-verse if you prefer, HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC is a novel-poem with a literary sci-fi bent, a shadow-text to Oedipus written in a style that is up-to-the-minute. With wit, dynamism, and cutting senses of urgency and humor, Iowa Prize winner Peter Jay Shippy tells the tale of Isaac Makepeace Watt, a melancholy man living in a Thebes that is much like contemporary America. The House of Cadmus still rules (and will fall), but they only appear in the poem as media white noise. Isaac's concerns are personal, his father's illness and his own moral decrepitude. There are talking monkeys, plagues, oracles, and nano-robots-you know, the usual agoramania.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9789848-2-3 (9780978984823)
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Peter Jay Shippy is the author of A SPELL OF SONGS (Saturnalia Books, 2013), Thieves' Latin, winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize, Alphaville (BlazeVox, 2006), and HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC (Rose Metal Press, 2007). He has been awarded writing fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005 he received a Gertrude Stein Award for innovative poetry. He teaches writing at Emerson College.