‘Kociejowski draws on all these aspects of his life in these engaging, idiosyncratic personal essays … [that] proffer the reader equal measures of autobiography, insight and quirky charm.’ —
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
In the game of bocce, no matter how intensely you study the world’s surface, there is always a chance an unseen pebble will knock your ball in an unexpected direction. In these essays, poet, antiquarian bookseller, and celebrated travel writer Marius Kociejowski chronicles serendipitous encounters with authors, manuscripts, and eccentrics, in which “the curious workings of fate” and “art’s unbidden swerve” intervene to shift the course of fortune.
Carried by keen wit, aphoristic prose, and a rich sense of characterization, and featuring chance meetings and comic misadventures with such figures as Bruce Chatwin, Zbigniew Herbert, and Javier Marías,
The Pebble Chance is a sumptuous offering of belles lettres exploring the incandescent moments when skill and providence collide.
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AUTHOR’S NOTE
Lunar
A Copper Gazelle
Girls, Handsome Dogs & Stuffed Olives
‘Monsieur, Le Chat est Mort’
‘Do Not Expect Applause’: W.S. Graham in Performance
My Father’s Silver Horse
The Testament of Charlotte B.
A Meeting with Pan Cogito
Richard Stanyhurst, Dubliner
Synchronicity & Tobacco Smoke
The Book of Ordon
A Voyage through Ormsby’s Araby
The Pebble Chance
The Poetical Remains of Madge Herron
The Problem with Steiner
C.M.: A Portrait
The Soul of Things: Mary Harman and her Art
A Singer from Ferghana
A Factotum in the Book Trade
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Marius Kociejowski, poet, essayist and travel writer, lives in London. He has published four collections of poetry,
Coast (Greville Press),
Doctor Honoris Causa, and
Music’s Bride (both Anvil Press).
So Dance the Lords of Language – poems 1975-2001 was published in Canada by Porcupine’s Quill in 2003. Most recently, he published
The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey (Sutton Publishing),
The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (Biblioasis),
God’s Zoo (Carcanet) and an anthology,
Syria through Writers’ Eyes (Eland).
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