Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra

by Jim Smith

Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra is Jim Smith's most extreme book yet. Bursting with anti-translations, non-stories, tiny lyrics and extended dictations, it is part birthday gift-bag, part writer's memento mori. Smith takes hero worship, the urge to list, the longing for just a few more words from the dead, the little baby Josef Stalin and a microdot Bible salesman to places no one else could imagine. This is Smith is at his most poetic and his most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894469860
• ISBN13: 9781894469869
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Mansfield Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"