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The Same Life Twice
Author(s): Frank Kuppner (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 26 July 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847771459
- ISBN-13: 9781847771452
Book Description
Comic, cosmic: for Kuppner the terms are inseparable. In the three plaited sections of “The Same Life Twice”, Frank Kuppner asks the essential, answerless questions about human existence: What are we doing here? Is it really here? And why here? ‘Fortunately,’ he writes, ‘it is nearly always possible to take notes, even if these habitually contradict each other.’ Here are Kuppner’s fieldnotes from life in an unfathomable universe. A sardonic Virgil showing us a directionless “Infinity”, Kuppner guides us through a reality in which we are just ‘one more of the ignorant infinite dots / rather than the vast central vortex we must feel ourselves to be’.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Frank Kuppner is a poet of immense intellectual and comic power, without whose cosmic interrogations the universe would be poorer. –Poetry Review
Kuppner’s poetry invites us to reflect on human knowledge and the ineffable, trivial nature of existence; it is true philosophy. –The Independent
About the Author
Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951 and has lived there ever since. He has been Writer in Residence at various institutions, currently at Strathclyde. Carcanet have published six books of his poetry: A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (Scottish Arts Council Book Award, 1984), The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women (1987), Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! (1989), Everything is Strange (1994), Second Best Moments in Chinese History (1997) and What? Again? Selected Poems (2000).
