{"product_id":"chris-edwards-people-of-earth","title":"Chris Edwards, People of Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShort-listed for the ALS Gold Medal 2012. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Edwards’ first full-length collection, \u003cem\u003ePeople of Earth\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) brings together the bulk of his previous Vagabond chapbooks plus a wealth of newer material, including \u003cem\u003eA Fluke\u003c\/em\u003e, his mistranslation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s \u003cem\u003eUn Coup de dés\u003c\/em\u003e, and the first movement of \u003cem\u003eSonata for O\u003c\/em\u003e, his “rendition” of Rainer Maria Rilke’s \u003cem\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e. The book’s concluding section, “Aha!”, incorporates scanned material and Egyptian hieroglyphs in what Stuart Cooke (writing in \u003cem\u003eSoutherly\u003c\/em\u003e) called “remarkable fissions of image, sign and signification” operating “at the intersection of non-verbal and verbal sounds, pictorial and alphabetic signs, and of ‘primitive’ and modern poetries.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“However much Edwards avoids the traditional role of the poet, he doesn’t really do away with being referential, with a sense of the real world. Instead, he uncovers its utter strangeness … ”  (David McCooey, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Edwards lives in Sydney, Australia, where he works as a freelance editor, typographer and graphic designer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2011. 188pp. ISBN 978-0-9805113-7-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/puex\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":240975903,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/chris_edwards_people_of_earth.jpg?v=1347950914","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/de\/products\/chris-edwards-people-of-earth","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}