Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai

Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Daniel Samoilovich's book-length sequence, Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily...
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Author: Daniel Samoilovich
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Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai by Samoilovich, Daniel

Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai

$49.45

Awaking Demons: The Notebooks of Tien Mai

$49.45
Author: Daniel Samoilovich
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Daniel Samoilovich's book-length sequence, Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily eking out a hotel life in 1930s Switzerland. 'Here/ where even the butterflies are different' is a source of amusement and amazement to him as he details the behaviour of the hotel servants and the other guests, and the strange local customs. But more often his mind turns to the woman he has left behind: 'The distance between us is greater/than the empire of night', and to the consolations of Eastern art, especially the poets of the Tang dynasty, Wang Wei, Du Mu and Li Po. Like them, he stands at his lectern with his brushes, composing in meticulous calligraphy, in perfect ideograms, poems of nature, philosophy, memory and love, though against the backdrop of the Swiss lakes rather than the Yangtze river. Tien Mai is a rounded and subtle creation - querulous, humorous, cynical, profound, whimsical, romantic - and rather a wonderful lyric poet.

"Samoilovich deals in the kind of poem, of such perfect sensibility, that current times seemed to have banished forever." -Pedro Rey, La Naci?n, Buenos Aires

"In his distancing, his chosen strangeness, Samoilovich combines an omnipresent irony with a lyricism of subtle melancholy, demonstrating that, as Pessoa, that master of masks, said, the true poet is a great impostor (even when he seems to be speaking in his own voice)." -Edgardo Dobry, Babelia, El Pa?s, Madrid


Author: Daniel Samoilovich
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 08/01/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781848619364

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