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Can I read How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic : a Book-length Poem on EtoBox?
How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic : a Book-length Poem by Peter Jay Shippy is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic : a Book-length Poem about?
Poetry. A book-length narrative poem, or a novella-in-verse if you prefer, HOW TO BUILD THE GHOST IN YOUR ATTIC is a novel-poem with a literary sci-fi bent, a shadow-text to Oedipus written in a style that is up-to-the-minute. With wit, dynamism, and cutting senses of urgency and humor, Iowa Prize winner Peter Jay Shippy tells the tale of Isaac Makepeace Watt, a melancholy man living in a Thebes that is much like contemporary America. The House of Cadmus still rules (and will fall), but they only appear in the poem as media white noise. Isaac's concerns are personal, his father's illness and his own moral decrepitude. There are talking monkeys, plagues, oracles, and nano-robots-you know, the usual agoramania.
Who reads How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic : a Book-length Poem?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Jay Shippy
- Publisher
- Brookline, MA: Rose Metal Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780978984823
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13