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02252aam a2200325 i 4500 001 B93735E2B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 181031t20192019onc 000 p eng d 010 $a 2018963020 020 $a 1771833769 020 $a 9781771833769 035 $a (OCoLC)1080217681 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d EQO $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d NLC $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 100 1 $a Vulpe, Nicola, $d 1954- $e author. 240 10 $a Poems. $k Selections 245 10 $a Insult to the brain : $b an altogether unreliable account of my conversations with poets, mostly about dying, but also about other matters great and trivial / $c Nicola Vulpe. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b Guernica, $c 2019. 300 $a 141 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Essential poets series ; $v 262 520 $a "They were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their nineties, one even to 103. Nicola Vulpe's Insult to the Brain transports us from the gas-seeped muck of the Somme, to a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, to an undisclosed prison yard in Iran, and a hundred times and places in between, to join some of the last century's finest poets in their final moments: horrific, tragic, ordinary, silly, absurd. Whether it is with the minimalist Gare de Rouen, 1916, dedicated to EÌmile Verhaeren, who was accidentally dropped under a train by an adoring crowd, the lament The Poet Descends, Willing the Stairs, for Forough Farrokhzad, who swerved her car into a wall to avoid a school bus, or the openly political Death and His Kin, for Tal Almallouhi, who disappeared into a Syrian prison and may or may not be dead, Vulpe writes unblinkingly with clarity, kindness even humour--of our common fate, and brings us closer to the fragile core of our humanity."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Death $v Poetry. 830 0 $a Essential poets; $v 262. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214012948.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806075928.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B93735E2B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search