| The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi Contributor(s): Ostashevsky, Eugene (Author) |
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ISBN: 1681370905 ISBN-13: 9781681370903 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2016051901 |
| Series: Nyrb Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.5" W x 6.9" (0.25 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature. Winner of the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of M nster The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky's new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others. |