Ian Seed
Underground Cabaret
Underground Cabaret
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The Underground Cabaret is the final volume of Ian Seed's quartet, following New York Hotel, Identity Papers, and Makers of Empty Dreams. It presents characters who are helpless in the face of absurdity, miss each other, and suffer alienation and loneliness in eerie and surreal encounters. Seed's writing is characterized by its droll and haunting nature, as well as its unpredictable and elegant prose poem style, reminiscent of Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 18 September 2020
Publisher: Shearsman Books
The final installment of a quartet, The Underground Cabaret, is a collection of prose poems by Ian Seed. It follows New York Hotel, Identity Papers, and Makers of Empty Dreams. In this collection, Seed explores the unsettling and uncanny, presenting characters who are helpless in the face of absurdity, who miss each other or form only transient connections, and who suffer alienation and loneliness in eerie and surreal encounters that emerge from the seemingly ordinary and mundane.
The prose poems in The Underground Cabaret are masterfully crafted, with each piece tightly constructed and filled with vivid imagery. Seed gives us characters who are often lost in their own worlds, struggling to connect with others and find meaning in their lives. The surreal encounters that take place in this collection are both strange and familiar, reflecting the complexities of human relationships and the absurdity of the world we live in.
One of the standout features of The Underground Cabaret is Seed's ability to twist daily reality taut and distill it down to its finest surreality. He navigates the complexities of being human, everywhere, nowhere, and at any given moment, with a sharp wit and a keen eye for detail. His micro-narratives and oblique parables are both droll and haunting, as unpredictable as quicksand, and as elegant as the work of those masters of the prose poem, Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy.
The Underground Cabaret is a testament to Ian Seed's talent as a writer and his ability to create compelling and thought-provoking prose poetry. It is a must-read for anyone who appreciates the power of language and the beauty of the written word.
Weight: 154g
Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848617230
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