Transmitter and Receiver
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
088971309X
ISBN-13
9780889713093
Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Imprint
Nightwood Editions
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 2015
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
113 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.90 x 0.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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"What I receive from these transmissions is a convincing sweetness, a weird wisdom. This book reminds me of David Berman''s Actual Air, but it''s warmer. Raoul Fernandes writes like a night school teacher teaching us ''something about night itself.'' It''s an engaging class, an occasionally mind-altering class, and I finished it feeling more hopeful and human."
-- Nick Thran
Debut talent Raoul Fernandes''s first offering is Transmitter and Receiver, a masterful and carefully depicted exploration of one''s relationships with oneself, friends, memories, strangers and technology.
The three parts of this collection are variations building on a theme--at times lonely, sometimes adoring, but always honest. Wider areas of contemplation--the difficulty of communication, the ever-changing symbolism of language and the nature of human interaction in the age of machines--are explored through colloquial scenes of the everyday: someone eats a burger in a car parked by the river ("Grand Theft Auto: Dead Pixels"), a song plays on the radio as a man contemplates suicide ("Car Game"), and a janitor works silently once everyone else has gone ("After Hours at the Centre For Dialogue").
Forthright and effortlessly lyrical, Fernandes builds each poem out of candor and insight, an addictive mix that reads like a favourite story and glitters with concealed meaning. Rather than drawing lines between isolation and connection, past and present, metaphor and reality, Transmitter and Receiver offers loneliness and longing hand-in-hand with affection and understanding: "The last assembly instruction is always you reading this. A machine / that rarely functions, but could never without you."
The three parts of this collection are variations building on a theme--at times lonely, sometimes adoring, but always honest. Wider areas of contemplation--the difficulty of communication, the ever-changing symbolism of language and the nature of human interaction in the age of machines--are explored through colloquial scenes of the everyday: someone eats a burger in a car parked by the river ("Grand Theft Auto: Dead Pixels"), a song plays on the radio as a man contemplates suicide ("Car Game"), and a janitor works silently once everyone else has gone ("After Hours at the Centre For Dialogue").
Forthright and effortlessly lyrical, Fernandes builds each poem out of candor and insight, an addictive mix that reads like a favourite story and glitters with concealed meaning. Rather than drawing lines between isolation and connection, past and present, metaphor and reality, Transmitter and Receiver offers loneliness and longing hand-in-hand with affection and understanding: "The last assembly instruction is always you reading this. A machine / that rarely functions, but could never without you."
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