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How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

By Shippy, Peter Jay

How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic Poetry

How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
88
Release Date:
2007-11-01
Publication Date:
2007-11-01
Publisher:
Rose Metal Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
097898482X
ISBN13:
9780978984823
Weight:
159 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
218 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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