The Dance at Mociu - Softcover

Riley, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907562361 ISBN 13: 9780907562368

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2003

Synopsis

'The Dance at Mociu' is a collection of some thirty short, poetic prose pieces concerning Transylvania, the area of Romania that Peter Riley and his wife visit every year. Part travel report, part story, part epiphany, these luminous pieces cast light onto a mysterious area of 'Old Europe' where clashing empires and ever-changing borders ensured that nothing remained stable but the old traditions and wonderful music.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Riley was born in 1942 and lives in Cambridge where he has a bookselling business. His collections of verse include 'Passing Measures' and 'Alstonefield' (both Carcanet), and 'Snow Has Fallen [...] Bury Me Here' (Shearsman Books).

From the Inside Flap

Most of them I call "factual stories". That is to say, things did happen more-or-less as described (or failed to, or appeared to, both of which I accept), and personal and place names are unaltered, but they remain constructed things. Those I don t call factual stories I call prose-poems, which means that rather less than nothing happened but there was a certain something in the air. We went there in search of music; everything else was glimpsed out of the corner of the eye, and hung on the frailty of singular instances. But instances which clearly could not occur anywhere else.

Peter Riley, from the Preface to the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907562361
• ISBN 13: 9780907562368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 119