The Place of Dead Roads Arcade Publishing First Edition

First Edition

This volume of selected and new poems brings together the best of Michael Ondaatje

He settles into the rhythm of a too-empty life

he finds nine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for two thousand years

has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows

The Place of Dead Roads Arcade Publishing First EditionA controversial reworking of well trodden American myth by the author of Naked Lunch. This surreal fable, set in Americas Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small town