Vulpe, Nicola
Insult to the Brain
- ISBN 13:
- 9781771833769
- author:
- Vulpe, Nicola
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Guernica Editions,Canada
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 130
- Dimensions:
- 20.3 x 12.7 centimetres
- Genre:
- Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Death, Grief, Loss,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Insult to the Brain: An Altogether Unreliable Account of My Conversations with Poets, Mostly about Dying, But Also about Other Matters Great and Trivial by Nicola Vulpe. This collection of conversations brings together some of the last century's finest poets in their final moments. From the trenches of World War I to a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, Nicola Vulpe shares unflinching and deeply human accounts of life, death, and everything in between. With clarity, kindness, and even humour, Vulpe explores our shared fate and brings us closer to the fragile core of our humanity. Through these conversations, we meet poets who lived extraordinary lives and faced unimaginable challenges. Their stories are both horrific and ordinary, tragic and silly, all at once. In Insult to the Brain, Vulpe writes with remarkable candour, revealing the complexities of human experience in all its beauty and brutality.