Maze

Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's invisible cities—the poems in Hugh Thomas's __Maze__ playfully (mis)translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement.

Intentional mistranslations that set a meandering path through the maze of language.

Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multi-lingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities—the poems in Hugh Thomas's Maze playfully translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement.

"A clever, complex debut, Maze will draw you into its labyrinthine, snakelike halls." — Winnipeg Free Press

Intentional mistranslations that set a meandering path through the maze of language. Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multi-lingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities—the poems in Hugh Thomas's Maze playfully translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement. "A clever, complex debut, Maze will draw you into its labyrinthine, snakelike halls." — Winnipeg Free Press Poetry. Intentional mistranslations that meander through the maze of language. Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world--subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's invisible cities--the poems in Hugh Thomas's MAZE playfully translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement. Drawing on the patterns of words, speech, and identity we encounter in the wider world—subway ads in Mexico City, a Dutch-Japanese phrase book, multilingual airplane safety instructions, one of Italo Calvino's invisible cities—the poems in Hugh Thomas's Maze playfully (mis)translate the maze of languages and language into moments of amazement. poetry, translation, mistranslation, travel, language play