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The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
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The stories in the book are: Mushrooms in the city – Marcovaldo spots some mushrooms growing at his tram stop and jealously guards them until it rains and he can harvest them for a much-anticipated supper. Park-bench vacation – Marcovaldo spends a hot summer night sleeping on a park-bench, but it is not the peaceful experience he had longed ...
Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment is a play inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and which deals with the fates of four different utopian communities in the United States. The play was staged by Walkabout Theater and premiered at Peter Jones Gallery.
The first book, Invisible City, was published in February 2008. The second, Ice Shock, was published in March 2009, [2] the third, Zero Moment, in Feb 2010, and the fourth, Dark Parallel, in April 2011. The fifth and final book, Apocalypse Moon, was released in April 2012.
One of the cities in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) is named after Baucis. Charles Frazier's novel, Cold Mountain (1997), ends with a reading of this myth. Film director Károly Makk sets his film Philemon és Baucis during the Hungarian uprising of 1956.
The Welsh-born Roberts, who served as Houston’s bodyguard from 1988 to 1995, spoke to the outlet ahead of the publication of his memoir Protecting Whitney, which is set to be released in January ...
This story was originally published in 2001 in an anthology titled With Signs & Wonders by Invisible Cities Press. In 2007, Subterranean Press produced a limited edition chapbook of "Pop Art" limited to 150 numbered copies and 52 lettered copies. These books were only available through the publishers website.
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