Chinese Whispers: Poems

by John Ashbery

Book Overview

Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain "Professor Hoffmann" in his book Drawing Room Amusements (1879), "the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with the final version, which has often changed beyond recognition." "Chinese Whispers" is also the superb title...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374122571
• ISBN13: 9780374122577
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"