Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
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Fiction. CENTURY DEAD CENTER contains George Economou's prose, poetry, translations, and visual art - a selection of work spanning eighteen years. The title piece drives home Walter Benjamin's claim, in "Theses on the Philosophy of History," that "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." In CENTURY DEAD CENTER," the phantasmagorical information age eclipses the sleep of reason.
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Seller's Description:
SIGNED. Fine and bright glossy with trifle sunning to one edge. Otherwise quite handsome all around. Softcover. With a centerpiece feature of the poet's colored paintings. Affectionately inscribed, dated and signed by the poet on the half title page "Wellfleet, August 31, 2000."
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Fine. First edition. Perfectbound in glossy wrappers. sunned at the spine, else fine. Although not signed, it's noted in Economou's hand as "author's copy December 3, 1997." Also laid in is a postcard address to Economou and his wife, the poet Rochelle Owens at their Norman, Oklahoma address, from one of their mother's trips to Lincoln, Montana.
