Recipes from the Red Planet - Couverture souple

Quartermain, Meredith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1897388659 ISBN 13 : 9781897388655

Editeur : Book*hug, 2010

Synopsis

Suppose fiction is a mansion of mirrors where narrative, setting and plot are characters, and suppose this castle is haunted by Martians constantly rearranging, reversing and transelating its furniture of myths, fables and nursery rhymes. Let's play space-wars, say the Martians, it's just a game é our guns shoot words. You zap a Martian. She disappears, but it turns out this Martian is a master chef who even created a recipe for life. How are you going to get the recipe back? How rebuild her carnival laboratory? Near the end of these wry and witty pages we are told of someone from Ontario, and the same page asks, Where is Ontario from? The same could be asked of the Red Planet, or Quartermain's ingredients: her lists, her seemingly endless strings of relations made tastier by the weight of form, be they tales, news reports, voice imitations. Metaphysics, local history, classics, astronomy é the reference range is vast, but so is the contemporary experience. A rising crust! é Michael Turner

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Meredith Quartermain was born in Toronto but grew up elsewhere in Ontario and in rural British Columbia. At UBC she was intrigued by the poetry of Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. She also delved into Biology, Latin, Math, Philosophy and Linguistics. For a while she practiced law. She is the author of several books of poetry including RECIPES FROM THE RED PLANET, MATTER, Nightmarker (finalist for the Vancouver Book Award) and Vancouver Walking (winner of a BC Book Award). She runs Nomados Literary Publishers with husband Peter Quartermain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book*hug
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1897388659
• ISBN 13: 9781897388655
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Bee Susan
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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