The Strange Years of My Life by Nicholas Laughlin

The Strange Years of My Life by Nicholas Laughlin

Despite the book s title, these poems are rarely autobiographical and have few straightforward stories to tell. They puzzle over accidents, coincidences, and codes, as they describe journeys and wonders, edging towards a sense of the world s curious strangeness, the complications of what we call history, the contretemps of geography.The poems belong to a hemisphere of the imagination that encompasses the narratives of 19th-century travelers and 20th-century anthropologists, spy movies, astronomical lore, the writings of Saint-John Perse and Henri Michaux, and the music of Erik Satie. They balance on the edge between concealment and revelation, between fascination and comprehension. For these poems, every sentence is a kind of translation, and language is a series of riddles with no solutions, subtly humorous at one phrase, sinister at another, heartbroken at the next.

Laughlin, Nicholas: - Nicholas Laughlin (Trinidad and Tobago) is the editor of the Caribbean Review of Books and the arts and travel magazine Caribbean Beat, and program director of the Bocas Lit Fest, an annual literature festival and literary development organization based in Trinidad. He is also codirector of the contemporary art space Alice Yard. His book of poems The Strange Years of My Life was published in 2015.

Nailah Folami Imoja (Barbados) is a Barbadian/British writer, performer, and educator. As a poet, novelist, and journalist, she has contributed significantly to the Barbadian litscape. She has performed her work in England, Canada, Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad.

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ISBN 13	9781845232924
ISBN 10	1845232925
Title	The Strange Years of My Life
Author	Nicholas Laughlin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Year published	2015-04-06
Number of pages	120
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