| Recipes from the Red Planet Contributor(s): Quartermain, Meredith (Author), Bee, Susan (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1897388659 ISBN-13: 9781897388655 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Department of Narrative Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Suppose fiction is a mansion of mirrors where narrative, setting and plot are characters, and suppose this castle is haunted by Martians constantly rearranging, reversing and transelating its furniture of myths, fables and nursery rhymes. Let's play space-wars, say the Martians, it's just a game 1/2 our guns shoot words. You zap a Martian. She disappears, but it turns out this Martian is a master chef who even created a recipe for life. How are you going to get the recipe back? How rebuild her carnival laboratory? Near the end of these wry and witty pages we are told of someone from Ontario, and the same page asks, Where is Ontario from? The same could be asked of the Red Planet, or Quartermain's ingredients: her lists, her seemingly endless strings of relations made tastier by the weight of form, be they tales, news reports, voice imitations. Metaphysics, local history, classics, astronomy 1/2 the reference range is vast, but so is the contemporary experience. A rising crust 1/2 Michael Turner |
Contributor Bio(s): Quartermain, Meredith: - Meredith Quartermain was born in Toronto but grew up elsewhere in Ontario and in rural British Columbia. At UBC she was intrigued by the poetry of Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. She also delved into Biology, Latin, Math, Philosophy and Linguistics. For a while she practiced law. She is the author of several books of poetry including RECIPES FROM THE RED PLANET, MATTER, Nightmarker (finalist for the Vancouver Book Award) and Vancouver Walking (winner of a BC Book Award). She runs Nomados Literary Publishers with husband Peter Quartermain. |