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Andrew Fitzsimons - My Father the Dog, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

My Father the Dog

Av Andrew Fitzsimons

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My Father The Dogis a haunting sequence of haiku inspired by real killings in an isolated mountain village in Japan. After decades working in the city, aman returns to his childhood home to care for his parents and their small farm. When they die, grief, rural isolation, and mounting tensionswith neighbours lead to his slow unravelling: a threatening haiku posted on a shed wall, the adoption of two dogs, and the growing belief that one dog is the reincarnation of his father.Structured in three sections echoing the three lines of a haiku, the book moves from the man's troubled homecoming to the aftermath of the killings, and finally to the fugitive's hallucinatory experience hiding in the forest awaiting capture. By placing extreme violence within a form associated with restraint and natural beauty, My Father The Dog creates a disturbing formal tension, producing a work that is spare, precise, and deeply unsettling.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-27
  • Mått: 135 x 216 x 5 mm
  • Vikt: 78 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 56
  • Förlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781800175747
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Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Dublin, and is a poet, translator and academic. He has published three volumes of poetry, What the Sky Arranges (2013), A Fire in the Head (2014), and The Sunken Keep (2017), all from Isobar Press. His translation Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho was published by the University of California Press in 2022, and received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Work of Literary Translation (Honorable Mention) from the MLA in 2023. His study of Thomas Kinsella, The Sea of Disappointment, was published by UCD Press (2008), and he edited Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009). He is a Professor of English at Gakushuin University, Tokyo.

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'Fitzsimons brings technical brilliance to bear on haunted events. The narrative radiates imagery outwards into the arcane; at the same time the form encloses the energy of each haiku tight as an atom. We're left with a fierce kinetic energy unlike anything I can remember reading. Eerie and absorbing, My Father the Dog is a stunning poetic achievement.'Eoin McNamee'My Father the Dog is a brilliant, daring and original poem by a truly outstanding poet and translator.'David Peace

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