Insult to the brain : an altogether unreliable account of my conversations with poets, mostly about dying, but also about other matters great and trivial / Nicola Vulpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vulpe, Nicola, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Essential poets ; 262.

Essential poets series ; 262

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Poetry.

Death.

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

141 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster, U.K. : Guernica, 2019.

Summary:

"They were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpe's Insult to the Brain transports us from the gas-seeped muck of the Somme, to a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, to an undisclosed prison yard in Iran, and a hundred times and places in between, to join some of the last century's finest poets in their final moments: horrific, tragic, ordinary, silly, absurd. Whether it is with the minimalist Gare de Rouen, 1916, dedicated to Émile Verhaeren, who was accidentally dropped under a train by an adoring crowd, the lament The Poet Descends, Willing the Stairs, for Forough Farrokhzad, who swerved her car into a wall to avoid a school bus, or the openly political Death and His Kin, for Tal Almallouhi, who disappeared into a Syrian prison and may or may not be dead, Vulpe writes unblinkingly with clarity, kindness even humour--of our common fate, and brings us closer to the fragile core of our humanity."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781771833769

1771833769

OCLC:

1080217681