A jittery, frequently uncomfortable collection of poems serves up an ironic and often kind of view of the American landscape and culture. Winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Original. (Poetry)

Thieves' Latin (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Literature & Fiction

Shippy, Peter Jay

History & Criticism

University Of Iowa Press

<p>Poetry. A book-length narrative poem, or a novella-in-verse if you prefer, HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC is a novel-poem with a literary sci-fi bent, a shadow-text to Oedipus written in a style that is up-to-the-minute. With wit, dynamism, and cutting senses of urgency and humor, Iowa Prize winner Peter Jay Shippy tells the tale of Isaac Makepeace Watt, a melancholy man living in a Thebes that is much like contemporary America. The House of Cadmus still rules (and will fall), but they only appear in the poem as media white noise. Isaac's concerns are personal, his father's illness and his own moral decrepitude. There are talking monkeys, plagues, oracles, and nano-robots-you know, the usual agoramania.</p>

How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

Poetry

Rose Metal Press

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