The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Eugene Ostashevsky ISBN: 9781681370910
Publisher: New York Review Books Publication: March 14, 2017
Imprint: NYRB Poets Language: English
Author: Eugene Ostashevsky
ISBN: 9781681370910
Publisher: New York Review Books
Publication: March 14, 2017
Imprint: NYRB Poets
Language: English

An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature.

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.

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An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature.

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.

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