{"product_id":"9781609641122","title":"Molloy: The Flip Side","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. MOLLOY: THE FLIP SIDE transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous antihero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: \"Gotta check out soon \/ Be done with dying,\" Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece.\u003cp\u003e\"In MOLLOY: THE FLIP SIDE, Chris Tysh transcreates—rather than translates—the Beckett classic into a Matthew O'Connor-cum-Tiresias rant. 'Has a leak in his tank \/ Button missing a hole \/ In his wig, you feel me?\" The indeterminate narrator of Tysh's formal tercets replicates the dialectics of gender, the Oedipal complex ('The thing is Mother and I— \/ My shitty start—are so old now \/ We're like two sere fucks on a rail') and, more generally, the problem of desire and knowledge vis-à- vis the world. That's a heady set of balls to keep up in the air, but Tysh's nimble enjambments and seamless heteroglossia (existential angst dukes it out with post-trip-hop surliness) keep things moving, propelling this mock-epic to its jocular, inconclusive, stop.\"—Tyrone Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BlazeVOX books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036710977776,"sku":"9781609641122","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609641122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}