The Middle Passage: A Triptych of Commodities
by Paul Metcalf
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0912330066
- ISBN 13
- 9780912330068
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Jargon 78.
Experimental fiction in three parts: Ludd, Efik and Orca, referring to three commodities: the looms that the Luddites feared, slaves, and whales. Pictorial dust jacket over stiff black paper cover. [63] pages. Slight shelf wear at edges and top of dust jacket.
"About Genoa (Jargon 43), Metcalf remarked in passing: 'I have written a wicked book, etc., etc., etc.' With The Middle Passage, we need a blurb saying: 'I have written a dark book, etc., etc.' And what a coal-hole! An unbearable blackness at times: he makes it possible by keeping the beat. The time he takes taps out the passion & dispassion of the textbook and the poem as they submit one to the other in turn. That hope--the old cliche commands us to abandon when entering such places--moves like a virus all throughout this, The Middle Passage." -Thomas Meyer
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- Bookseller
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14
- Title
- The Middle Passage
- Author
- Paul Metcalf
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0912330066
- ISBN 13
- 9780912330068
- Publisher
- The Jargon Society
- Place of Publication
- Highlands, NC
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- experimental fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; The Jargon Society;
- Size
- 23 cm.
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