{"product_id":"all-my-dead-jesters","title":"All My Dead Jesters","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Nadia de Vries\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: Guy Maddin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Tenement Press (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll My Dead Jesters\u003c\/em\u003e is an assembly of select poems previously published in de Vries’ first two English language collections—\u003cem\u003eDark Hour\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Failed to Swoon\u003c\/em\u003e (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018 and 2021 respectively). These old works have been lightly revised for republication, and are paired with poems drawn from a manuscript-in-process to institute an autotelic kaleidoscope of some ten years worth of work in verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Vries’s poems are spare, terse and epigrammatical—a barroom Bashō—dedicated to the glimmer of a compact glance; the chance, glamour and negative capability of a passing thought; and the slow drip of liquid crystal as colours our present. \u003cem\u003eAll My Dead Jesters\u003c\/em\u003e is a torch song for our \"\u003cem\u003epoor subjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e,\" a slow dance with sour times, a \"[steering] \u003cem\u003eaway from\u003c\/em\u003e [the] \u003cem\u003egratuitous provocation\u003c\/em\u003e\" that litters our contemporary outlook. .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Vries’s poetry is punctuated with especially commissioned collage-works by artist and filmmaker Guy Maddin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNadia de Vries\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her previous collections include \u003cem\u003eKnow Thy Audience\u003c\/em\u003e (MOIST, 2023), \u003cem\u003eI Failed to Swoon\u003c\/em\u003e (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and \u003cem\u003eDark Hour\u003c\/em\u003e (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). She also writes fiction in Dutch. Her novels \u003cem\u003eDe bakvis\u003c\/em\u003e (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) and \u003cem\u003eOvergave op commando\u003c\/em\u003e (2025) were translated to English by Sarah Timmer Harvey as, respectively, \u003cem\u003eThistle\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Menard Press, 2024) and \u003cem\u003eSurrender on Demand\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2027).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuy Maddin\u003c\/strong\u003e has directed thirteen feature-length movies, most recently \u003cem\u003eRumours\u003c\/em\u003e (2024), starring Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, as well as \u003cem\u003eThe Forbidden Room\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eMy Winnipeg\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eThe Saddest Music in the World\u003c\/em\u003e (2003). He has also mounted over seventy performances of his films around the world featuring live elements—such as orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration—most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Green Fog\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), which was accompanied live by the Kronos Quartet. His screenplay collaborators include Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and poet John Ashbery. His movies \u003cem\u003eArchangel\u003c\/em\u003e (1990) and \u003cem\u003eThe Heart of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) both won National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Experimental Film.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodland Pattern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44270175682659,"sku":"9781917304139","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/AllMyDeadJesterscover.jpg?v=1781891745","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/all-my-dead-jesters","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}