Book of Bachelors

by Philip Terry

Overview

David Bellos, Introduction: The Book of Bachelors by Philip Terry/Philip Terry, The Book of Bachelors/Philip Terry, Afterword

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564782212
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Series:	Review of Contemporary Fiction
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.95(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962 and has been working with Oulipian and related writing practices for over twenty years. His lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors (1999), was highly praised by the Oulipo: "Enormous rigour, great virtuosity but that's the least of it." Currently he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex, where he teaches a graduate course on the poetics of constraint. His work has been published in Panurge, PN Review, Oasis, North American Review, and Onedit, and his books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) and Fables of Aesop (2006). His translation of Raymond Queneau's last book of poems, Elementary Morality, is forthcoming from Carcanet. Oulipoems is his first book of poetry.