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THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS IBD

UNSOLICITED PRESS
11 / 2018
9781947021617
Inglés

Sinopsis

The Man Who Never Was was a failed TV show from the late Sixties whose protagonist was a spy named Peter Murphy. The poems in The Man Who Never Was borrow the titles of the show&rsquo,s 19 episodes and explore identities, politics, lies (Sorry, that&rsquo,s redundant), and personal mythology while shamelessly punning and quoting from Murphy&rsquo,s Law, The Peter Principle, The Dropkick Murphys and the English post-punk-godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy. If that weren&rsquo,t enough, the poems test the reader&rsquo,s patience by alluding to celebrities such as Lance Armstrong, Robert Blake, James Gandolfini, Greta Garbo, Samuel Johnson, Dee Dee Ramone, Jada Pinkett-Smith and others born on the author&rsquo,s birthday, September 18, as well as Daj Hammarskjöld and Jimi Hendrix who died on that same date. What a mess.