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Nagasaki Soul Huffer: A Manhunt In Fifty-five Cantos
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789198871135
Publisher: Trapart Books
Published: Dec 11 2023
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
American author Tom Bradley's epic poem Nagasaki Soul Huffer is a literary tour de force that hurls the reader deep into the author's magical universe. It's a world composed of absurdist twists and turns, surreal hurdles, and a take-no-prisoners approach to liberating the reader from whatever expectations may have existed at the outset. Bradley's powerful blank verse will shake your entire being, and won't let go until you've succumbed to the experience of existing in a parallel and relentlessly poetic universe from which you will find yourself looking out instead of in.
The Soul Huffer of the title is an enormous man, exiled in Nagasaki. He's matrilaterally descended from an earlier Nagasaki expatriate, Thomas Glover, the Scottish Samurai. Known as the Founder of Modern Japan, Glover engaged in heavy industrial pursuits which eventually attracted the second atom bomb. The Soul Huffer has undertaken certain esoteric activities as atonement for this hereditary guilt. From the top of an extinct volcano in the city's suburbs, he inhales the atomized bits of nukees, then- Expelling hopeful, naked little beingson gales cyclonic as Gargantuan throat
and trampoline-broad diaphragm can blow,
Sam launches them on greenhouse-gaseous wings
as far as superhumanly he can
across deepwater inlets of the bay,
beyond the piers, avuncular breakwaters,
the moles and causeways, toward East China Sea,
to hatch afresh with jellyfish and polyps
and un-Linnaean isotopic mutants
from Fukushima's farce lately adrift.
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