21st Century
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- ISBN 9781847771452
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 135 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Comic, cosmic: for Kuppner the terms are inseparable. In the three plaited sections of The Same Life Twice, Frank Kuppner asks the essential, answerless questions about human existence: What are we doing here? Is it really here? And why here? ‘Fortunately,’ he writes, ‘it is nearly alwayspossible to take notes, even if these habitually contradict each other.’ Here are Kuppner’s fieldnotes from life in an unfathomable universe.
A sardonic Virgil showing us a directionless Infinity, Kuppner guides us through a reality inwhich we are just ‘one more of the ignorant infinite dots / rather than the vast central vortex we must feel ourselves to be’.
A sardonic Virgil showing us a directionless Infinity, Kuppner guides us through a reality inwhich we are just ‘one more of the ignorant infinite dots / rather than the vast central vortex we must feel ourselves to be’.
Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951. He has written eleven Carcanet collections. The first, A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty, was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book award in 1984. Second Best Moments in Chinese History received the same award in 1997. A novelist as well as a poet, he received the McVitie’s Prize for his fiction in 1995. He has been Writer in Residence at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Glasgow.
