The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews Paperback Book

Description: The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews Moving nimbly between the granular and the broad view, The Oblong Plot, Chris Andrews third collection, takes in paint splotches on a sawhorse and a star named Fang, life-wasting systems and means of escape. These faceted, echoing poems observe the worlds shifting arrangements while rearranging their own letters, sounds, syllables, words and lines. The Oblong Plot invites the reader to join in its serious play. I loved this exhilarating, brilliant book. The poems in The Oblong Plot have style and wit to burn, and strike like a tuning fork, reverberating and reshaping the air around us. They are sharply attuned to the ironies and absurdities of contemporary life, finding linguistic torque and wry humour in cityscapes and their inhabitants waking lives, dreams and aspirations. In seemingly effortless but technically dazzling syllabics, time and again Andrews punctures through the surface of things to find something much stranger and more surreal sitting under the days skin. He is a relentlessly surprising and inventive poet whose vast linguistic gifts - including an electrifying skill at toggling between the vernacular and the poetically charged, "between / the dreamwarp and the cybercapsule" - remind us that language can both unmake and remake the world around us. The Oblong Plot is a gift to all who turn to poetry seeking to find our language recharged and refreshed. - Sarah Holland-Batt FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Chris Andrews lives on unceded Wangal land. He taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Western Sydney. His previous collections of poetry are Lime Green Chair (Waywiser, 2012) and Cut Lunch (Indigo / Ginninderra, 2002). His study of the Oulipo, How to Do Things with Forms, was published by McGill-Queens University Press in 2022. The books of prose fiction that he has translated from Spanish and French include Liliana Colanzis You Glow in the Dark (New Directions, 2024), Kaouther Adimis A Bookshop in Algiers (Serpents Tail, 2020), Csar Airas The Lime Tree (And Other Stories, 2017) and Roberto Bolaos By Night in Chile (Harvill, 2003). Details ISBN1923099175 Author Chris Andrews Publisher Puncher and Wattmann Format Paperback Pages 100 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781923099173 Publication Date 2024-07-01 Imprint Puncher and Wattmann Place of Publication Glebe, NSW Country of Publication Australia Audience General Illustrations Illustrations AU Release Date 2024-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160767682;

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