How To Build The Ghost In Your Attic
Shippy, Peter Jay
ISBN 10: 097898482X ISBN 13: 9780978984823
Published by Rose Metal Press, 2007
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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.
About the Author: Peter Jay Shippy is the author of A SPELL OF SONGS (Saturnalia Books, 2013), Thieves' Latin, winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize, Alphaville (BlazeVox, 2006), and HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC (Rose Metal Press, 2007). He has been awarded writing fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2005 he received a Gertrude Stein Award for innovative poetry. He teaches writing at Emerson College.
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Title: How To Build The Ghost In Your Attic
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
Publication Date: 2007
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