Say It Again: A Book of Misquotations - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909560294 ISBN 13 : 9781909560291

Editeur : Sidekick Books, 2022

Synopsis

“Very ready we are to say of a book, ‘How good it is – that’s exactly what I think!’ But the right feeling is, ‘What the hell did I just read?’”
― John Ruskin

Why a book of misquotations? Because what’s captured in such a book is the jittery, jumbled essence of truth: that wisdom and edict alike are constantly customised, iterated, adjusted. Nothing stays the same.

Say It Again gathers the sage words of philosophers, statesmen, artists and authors alongside proverbs, sayings and scripture – all distorted with varying degrees of deliberation. Some are stitched into poems (or something like poems) while others speak to the present in bizarre new ways.
Whether or not they retain their former authority, or the power to lower the reader into the deep well of human experience, these refigured fragments are evidence that everything we know may be shaken, like the grains in a kaleidoscope.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and editor. Her work has been published by Salt, Happenstance and Guillemot, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, judged competitions, and taught courses on folklore in poetry, and currently edits for First Story.

Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his debut collection, School of Forgery, (Salt, 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has written several shorter poetry books and a monograph, Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames (DeGruyter, 2022). He teaches writing and publishing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidekick Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909560294
• ISBN 13: 9781909560291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Éditeur: Irving Kirsten, Stone Jon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible