An original collection from one of the most active poets in
contemporary literature.
Winner of the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster
The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the
relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a
certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where
they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate
with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized
by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical,
philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky's new
large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts
about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game
theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension,
untranslatability, and the otherness of others.