The Grid (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 2023
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Paperback. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024A The Telegraph Book of the YearThe Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August 2023The Grid isabout the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences ofpoems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts,figures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice Blanchotcalled 'the writing of the disaster'. Like a detective novel, the titlesequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay aboutAlice Kober, the half-forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of theancient writing system called Linear B. Across different wartimes,Mandel adapts the typography and formatting of archived papers, theiroverlaps and errors and aporias, which compel readers to investcreatively in the very act of reading, learning new ways into languageas they go.The leaps between past and present work in dialoguelike a series of exhilarating stepping stones. This is a collection ofwhat, though sometimes written as prose, turn out to be poems. FromOvid's bitter letters of exile to the prime minister's letters ofinstruction to nuclear submarine captains, The Grid tells aseries of stories about four thousand years of apocalypse. Strange,humane, and deeply rooted in the ancient world, Mandel's first booksurveys the ruins of the West with no nostalgia. In poems and translations, The Grid tells a highly unusual set of stories about the end of the world, ancient and modern. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- The Grid (Paperback)
- Author
- Eli Payne Mandel
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1800173296
- ISBN 13
- 9781800173293
Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024
A The Telegraph Book of the Year
The Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month August 2023
The Grid is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts, figures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice Blanchot called 'the writing of the disaster'. Like a detective novel, the title sequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay about Alice Kober, the half-forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of the ancient writing system called Linear B. Across different wartimes, Mandel adapts the typography and formatting of archived papers, their overlaps and errors and aporias, which compel readers to invest creatively in the very act of reading, learning new ways into language as they go.
The leaps between past and present work in dialogue like a series of exhilarating stepping stones. This is a collection of what, though sometimes written as prose, turn out to be poems. From Ovid's bitter letters of exile to the prime minister's letters of instruction to nuclear submarine captains, The Grid tells a series of stories about four thousand years of apocalypse. Strange, humane, and deeply rooted in the ancient world, Mandel's first book surveys the ruins of the West with no nostalgia.
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About the Author
Eli Payne Mandel is a poet and psychoanalyst in training. He studied English literature at Yale and Princeton, and has lived most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PN Review, New Poetries IX, Raritan, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares Solos, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. The Grid is his first book.
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