New Cross-Fucked Musings on a Manic Reality Nassif al-Nasseri

New Cross-Fucked Musings on a Manic Reality Nassif al-NasseriWho are the Enigmatic Polygeneration? They were christened by Tom Bradley in chapter four of Put It Down in a Book, as follows: Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space has been erased by the miracle of email, so has time, in terms of its effects on the human frame . . . In a creation where particles can spookily act upon each other at a distance of quadrillions of light

What year is this

so complex

and moving account of the characters that make festivals tick

From the steely glamour of silent film-star goddesses to moonlit seasons and the ghosts of other possible

deserves a prize for the best cover photograph - the author seated in a deckchair totally naked except for this laptop' - the Spectator

a pregnant food writer gets a craving for luxury consumerism

it evokes a dazzling world on the brink of destruction

Jeffrey Vallance

and scores of others better known in their homeland than in America

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the local authorities follow procedures and file reports

poets and characters speak directly to the readers