Chocolate Che (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848611061)

The poems in Chocolate Che were written in Cuba in the fiftieth year of the revolution; in India working with dying destitutes and recovering from tuberculosis; travelling up and down the spine of the Americas and into the heart of Europe on the trail of soldiers, artists and monks. Damian Furniss works images into narratives that are both darkly humorous and strangely moving. Using forms as varied as their subjects, with characteristic verbal intensity and a probing wit, he returns to the fixations of his youth in wry but reflective maturity. Along the way, he encounters the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa; visits the houses of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, only to find no one's at home; and collects the stubs of cigars that might once have been smoked by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, but probably weren't.

Author: Damian Furniss
ISBN-10: 1848611064
ISBN-13: 9781848611061
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2010
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d