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  • I Wanna Be Yours
  • 作者:John Cooper Clarke
  • 出版社代理人:Picador(英国)
  • 出版时间:2020年10月
  • 页数:480页
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  • 版权联系人:yayu@peonyliteraryagency.com
内容介绍

英国庞克诗人John Cooper Clarke 回忆录


披头四灵魂人物之一的Paul McCartney称他为「英国杰出诗人之一」。

北极泼猴前乐手Alex Turner形容他是作词创作的「巨大灵感思源」。

英国四人乐团Working Men's Club首张专辑的其中一首歌就是以他的名字为命名。


这本有趣动人的回忆录,对於英国庞克诗人约翰・库珀・克拉克(John Cooper Clarke)的终身粉丝以及整个新一代来说,都是一种阅读乐趣。 内容诉说从他在索尔福德城市(Salford)的童年到世界巡回演唱的种种回忆,还有他与毒瘾的纠缠心路历程,以及北极泼猴(Arctic Monkeys)到英国饶舌歌手Plan B 重新发现他的音乐等等。在这本精彩的回忆录中,约翰用自我独特方式讲述了自己的故事。


书评

John Cooper Clarke is one of Britain’s outstanding poets. His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades and his no nonsense approach to his work and life in general has appealed to many people including myself for many years. Long may his slender frame and spiky top produce words and deeds that keep us on our toes and alive to the wonders of the world.
― Sir Paul McCartney

The godfather of British performance poetry
― Daily Telegraph

There are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper Clarke 

― Julian Hall ― Independent

A poet who writes about darkness and decay but makes people laugh, a human cartoon, a gentleman punk, a man who has stayed exactly the same for thirty years but never grown stale. John Cooper Clarke is an original
― Claire Smith ― Scotsman

I say to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke and if they say, yes, yeah he's an absolute genius and you just go, 'oh - ok, you've saved me a lot of time
― Steve Coogan

John Cooper Clarke uses words like Chuck Berry uses guitar riffs melody and anger, humour and disdain in equal measure. He's the real deal, really funny and really caustic, the velvet voice of discontent.
 ― Kate Moss

...nothing short of dazzling
― Alex Turner

It’s impossible not to hear Clarke’s voice, rhythmic & deadpan, while reading his memoir. Like his poetry,his prose style is wry and dry . . . Mad anecdotes & whimsical gags abound, but wisdom often lurks beneath the wordplay.
― Guardian

I Wanna Be Yours is fantastically entertaining . . . As a writer of comic prose Clarke is the match of anyone alive, and his turns of phrase are as sharp as his suits (the view over 1950s Manchester from the fire escape behind his house was 'Coronation Street for a million miles'). His drawl is as much a part of his peculiar ars poetica as the words of the poems themselves. Every sentence he writes, you read in his voice. By the end of the nearly 500 pages of I Wanna be Yours I felt I’d not so much read a memoir as listened to an outrageous confession from a psychoanalyst’s couch
― The Times Saturday Review

Riveting ― The Observer 'Book of the Week'
 

关於作者

John Cooper Clarke(JCC)在1970年代以原始的「人民诗人」一举成名。从此之後,他的表演专业跨越文化丶听众丶艺术形式和世界各大洲。 如今,JCC一如既往地具有影响力和充满活力,其影响力在当今流行文化中同样可见。除了他的不羁外表风格继续引起不分老少的时尚达人的共鸣之外,他的诗歌被列入国家课程大纲中,他对现代音乐的影响是巨大的。

他最近期在英国丶美国丶加拿大和大洋洲进行巡回演出的音乐表演中,融合了经典诗句丶非凡的新文字素材丶耐人寻味的现代生活思考,以及风趣诚实的事实和对话——这是一个见证活着的传奇的机会。