{"product_id":"poem-strip-including-an-explanation-of-the-afterlife-isbn-9798896230007","title":"Poem Strip: Including an Explanation of the Afterlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold with riotous ’60s flair in Dino Buzzati’s phantasmagorical graphic novel, a story with “shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, [and] shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just  doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young  singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous  girlfriend Eura disappear, “like a spirit,” through a little door in the  high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way. Where has  Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders  of life and death to find out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, \u003ci\u003ePoem Strip\u003c\/i\u003e—a  pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s—is a dark and alluring  investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino  Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde.“I think I stumbled upon this on late-night TV when I was a kid: Donovan, playing himself, wandering through a neo-Caligari lava-lamp world of writhing Barbara Steeles and Sophia Lorens in search of love and justice and groove. I'm happy to see it's on again.” —Daniel Handler\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] decisive contribution to the establishment of the graphic novel as a proper literary genre…. \u003ci\u003ePoem Strip\u003c\/i\u003e is exhilarating in its inventiveness and highly provocative. Enticing and terrifying in turns, it reinvented the whole concept of the comic book by merging experimental graphics, erotically charged illustration, avant-garde poetry, psychedelic songwriting, and occult fiction.” —Valentina Zanca, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A sumptuous meditation on the ways in which death gives life meaning.... Although its psychedelic palette points to its '60s creation, the images are still strikingly modern and erotic.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Comics have been described as movies on paper, and this one reads like a rock ’n’ roll-sexploitation-fantasy-occult midnight cult favorite.\" —\u003ci\u003eAV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDino Buzzati \u003c\/b\u003e(1906–1972) studied law at the University of Milan  and, at the age of twenty-two, went to work for the daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eCorriere della Sera\u003c\/i\u003e,   where he remained for the rest of his life. He served in World War II   as a journalist connected to the Italian navy and on his return   published the book for which he is most famous, \u003ci\u003eThe Stronghold\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Classics).  A gifted artist as well as writer, Buzzati was the  author of five  novels and numerous short stories, as well as a popular  children’s book,  \u003ci\u003eThe Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Harss \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator and dance writer based in New York City. She is the author of the biography \u003ci\u003eThe Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233480552677,"sku":"NP9798896230007","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230007.jpg?v=1767734908","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poem-strip-including-an-explanation-of-the-afterlife-isbn-9798896230007","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}