THE WRITER IN THE STORY AND OTHER FIGURATIONS. ( WITH CD OF RADIO 3S TWENTY MINUTE BROADCAST)

RICHER, Ted.

ISBN 10: 095259062X / ISBN 13: 9780952590620

Published by Apocalypse Press, New Orleans, 2003

About this Item

8vo. pp 381. Introduction by Christopher Ricks. CD at the rear: Apocalypse and the BBC present Chistopher Ricks introduction to the Radio 3 twenty minute s programme on Ted Richer. Additional selected readings by Ted Richer and Paula Langton. Very slight bump to top corner. Very good indeed. First Edition. Wraps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WRITER IN THE STORY AND OTHER FIGURATIONS. ( WITH CD OF RADIO 3S TWENTY MINUTE BROADCAST)
• Publisher: Apocalypse Press, New Orleans
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 095259062X
• ISBN 13: 9780952590620
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

"Figurations is the work of Ted Richer, an American writer and performer of miniature Beckettian monologues and dialogues, each lasting only a minute or two. They twist and turn around a few words or phrases of love, love denied or lost, driving the words deeper and deeper into the mind. These are inner voices made audible but also bearable by ritual and permutation ... They need such obsessive forms because they grow out of a 'burning sense of shame and of humilitation' as Christopher Ricks put it. In pain they make art. And that begins to help." - David Sheldon, The Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Ted Richer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Founding Faculty Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published in numerous journals, including AGNI, Literary Imagination, Harvard Review, James Joyce Quarterly, Leviathan, New York Quarterly, Free Inquiry, The Poetry Porch, Poetry Northeast, Clarion, and Daedalus. Richer was subject of a BBC Radio 3 presentation by Christopher Ricks on Twenty Minutes.