Michael Zand

The Messier Objects

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Produktbeschreibung

The Messier Objects are a catalogue of astro-nomical bodies discovered and published by Charles Messier in 1771. In this new collection of poems, Michael Zand re-frames these objects as totemic symbols that celebrate the creative and social diversity of the human experience. "The Messier Objects" are thus meditations on the colour and complexity of the universe, and a rejection of a perceived drift towards cultural polarisation, simplification and standardisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9781848614567
• ISBN-10: 184861456X
• Artikelnr.: 43598140

Autorenporträt

Michael Mehrdad Zand Ahanchian is a writer, poet, editor and researcher. He was born in Iran but has spent most of his life in London. He now lives near Reading and is a research student at Roehampton University, where he is working with Peter Jaeger, Jeff Hilson and Mark Knight.His poetry has a penchant for the frayed edges of language, the places where tongues get tied with each other and where sometimes something new emerges. He has read at a number of poetry events, including Openned, La Langoustine est Morte, Crossing the Line and Diverse Deeds, and has participated in various collaborations with musicians and sound artists.Other projects include his blogsite proetics and an ongoing international translation project called lexico, for which he won the Roehampton Poetry Performance Prize in 2008. He is currently working on a new creative and contemporary translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, called ruby.