Signature Editions
Passenger Flight
Key Metrics
- Brian Campbell
- Signature Editions
- Paperback
- 9781897109335
- 8.9 X 6.1 X 0.3 inches
- 0.39 pounds
- Poetry > Canadian - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In Passenger Flight, Brian Campbell takes us on a harrowing but exhilarating ride through the heavy turbulence of the twenty-first century. This collection of free-wheeling, elegantly crafted prose poems lifts us off from a worldly kitchen, taking us on a journey through caf�s, city streets and suburban malls until we find ourselves suspended over the star-like constellations of a brightly lit city. Along the way, we visit a swamp, a desert, a mountain, an abattoir, oil slicks, drag race strips, missile sites, suicide bombings and realms of total video surveillance in this post-9/11 world. Not to mention quiet enclaves of love-making, evocations of primordial nature, phantasmagorical dreams, and a collage of erotically suggestive magazine pictures. Stories are told, cosmologies formed and smashed, until we discover the underlying affirmation that makes the whole trip worth it. At times, the rules of physics are turned upside down. At other times, it is sheer, laughable absurdity. At still other times, the flight path is so intense that the language becomes luminous and incantatory. Throughout the journey, Campbell deftly guides us in the huge luge of his craft -- the imaginative flight itself.
Author Bio
Brian Campbell was educated at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Oxford and is Professor of Roman History. From 2002 to 2005 he held a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship to pursue a project on rivers in the ancient world, and in 2005 he was a visiting fellow at All Souls', Oxford. In 2004 he delivered the Broughton Memorial Lecture at the University of North Carolina. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
Research Interests
His main research interests lie in the area of the Roman army, ancient military writers, Roman imperial politics, and land survey.
Source: Queen's University Belfast
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