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SKY WRI TEI NGS

SKY WRI TEI NGS

By Nasser Hussain
Categories: Poetry
Paperback : 9781552453711, 88 pages, October 2018
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781770565630, 88 pages, October 2018
Ebook (PDF) : 9781770565647, 88 pages, October 2018

Poems written only from three-letter airport codes demand a new kind of passport. Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, SKY WRI TEI NGS explores the relationship between language and place in a global context. Watch as words jet-set across the map, leaving a poetic flight path. See letters take flight (and leave their baggage behind).

Reviews

"While most of us use airport codes only functionally, Nasser Hussain uses them poetically. Out of the raw material of these unpromising nuggets, he has assembled, ingeniously, an entire book of poems." – New York Times