{"product_id":"conversations-and-versifications-paperback","title":"Conversations and Versifications - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarvin Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eColin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMaggie Beale\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author James Sallis said Marvin Cohen's first book \"\u003cem\u003eThe Self-Devoted Friend\u003c\/em\u003e (1967) is a collection of short pieces  which] are variously narrative, dialogue, essay, epigram-some are surreal, some are pastiche and parody, some are reminiscent of Baudelaire's \u003cem\u003ePetits Po mes en Prose\u003c\/em\u003e. Ellipsis is the predominant quality: the reader is asked to accept this material, this disparate substance strung together with associate devices . . . Parts are superbly comic  though it does not] afford the reader easy entrance . . . It deserves reading; there is, at least, nothing quite like it. Cohen is trying to explore the possibilities and expand the limits of the fictional form. For this, and for the large measure of success he achieves, attention is due him.\"  \u003cem\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, #181, April 1968]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver fifty years later, there is still nothing quite like it, except, of course, Marvin's subsequent writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part of this book comes from Marvin Cohen's big shoe-box of unpublished typescripts, mainly dating from the 1970s and 1980s. The rest comprises dialogues, monologues, sketches and verse selected from his recent emails to a number of friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101042839687,"sku":"9780578812632","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/41fe144891453c26c463a45e220cfe56.webp?v=1732390506","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/conversations-and-versifications-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}