Our Obsidian Tongues
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Our Obsidian Tongues by David Shook
David Shook's debut collection employs the city as a lens through which to explore the multiplicity of voices that inhabit it, cannibalizing a wide range of his predecessors - from the Classical Nahuatl singers of the Aztec empire to the contemporary poets of Mexico City - to scrape away the city's grunge and reveal hidden layers of sediment and story.
Shook, David: - David Shook grew up in Mexico City before studying endangered languages in Oklahoma and poetry at Oxford. He has translated Roberto Bolano's Infrarealist manifesto, indigenous Mexican poetry from the Isthmus Zapotec, and oral poetry by the Burundian Batwa. He served as Translator in Residence at Britain's Poetry Parnassus at The Southbank, in 2012. There he premiered his covertly shot documentary about Equatorial Guinean poet Marcelo Ensema Nsang. Shook lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the poet and pastor Syd Shook, where he edits Molossus and Phoneme Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908998071 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908998075 |
| Title | Our Obsidian Tongues |
| Author | David Shook |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eyewear Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 66 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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