The Flaying of Marsyas / Die H
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by Florian Vetsch, Douglas Spangle
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The fifteen poems in this selection by the Swiss poet Florian Vetsch - documentarian of Ira Cohen and the American beat poets, traveller, organizer of cross-cultural books and literary events - are often playful. He writes about beer; he writes about wine, riffing on "A Case of You" by Joni Mitchell; he writes about being invaded by dead poets.
And then he's not joking: he writes about an old photograph of his mother as a young woman before WW2; a poem for the American journalist Mary Colvin, assassinated in Syria by the Assad regime; and then "The Flaying of Marsyas", protesting against the frightful punishments inflicted on those artists, mystics or philosophers who challenge the ruling coteries of gods, priests, and politicians.
In this small collection Vetsch covers an astonishing range of our ways of being alive. It wears its playfulness lightly - pff-tok! says the beer-can; excuse me while I kiss the sky - And then it looks at history, the other things we do. Vetsch moves on and we move with him, remembering the colour of rust and blood staining river water.
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Reprobate/GobQ
Published
January 2024
Weight
73g
Dimensions
12.7 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm
ISBN
9798885263559
ISBN-10
8885263550
Eden Code
6507462
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ISBN: 9798885263559
Publisher: Reprobate/GobQ
Release Date: January 2024
Weight: 73g
Dimensions: 12.7 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm
Eden Code: 6507462