The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets)

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets)

An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature.

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevskyâ€™s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Poets
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 9781681370903
Color Yellow
Height 7.00786
Length 4.48818
Weight 0.26014546916
Width 0.3937
ReleaseDate 2017-03-14
NumberOfItems 1

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