Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346188
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English."—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw—the book's central image—all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.
Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346188
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English."—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw—the book's central image—all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346188
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"Brilliant ....certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English."—Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw—the book's central image—all manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.
Chainsaw Poems & Other Poems
Author: Giacomo Pope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732734722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732734722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Water Sessions
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448137284
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and political, Water Sessions brilliantly registers the shock waves of global tumult in the most intimately domestic of settings, while at the same time constantly feeling its way outward through private experience into the larger arenas of social and civic drama. Fathers and sons, men and women, desire and repression, art and silence, form the book's central polarities. Recurrent motifs of water and gardens give its wide-ranging subjects a satisfying coherence while also supplying its sometimes darkly urgent poems with a note of intense lyrical beauty. Much praised for the wit and tensile strength of his line, Lasdun moves in this volume from the tight formality of 'Stones' through the highly original patient/therapist dialogue form of the title poem, to the exuberant free verse of 'Dog Days', with a versatility and intelligence that ensure his standing as one of the most gifted poets writing today.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448137284
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and political, Water Sessions brilliantly registers the shock waves of global tumult in the most intimately domestic of settings, while at the same time constantly feeling its way outward through private experience into the larger arenas of social and civic drama. Fathers and sons, men and women, desire and repression, art and silence, form the book's central polarities. Recurrent motifs of water and gardens give its wide-ranging subjects a satisfying coherence while also supplying its sometimes darkly urgent poems with a note of intense lyrical beauty. Much praised for the wit and tensile strength of his line, Lasdun moves in this volume from the tight formality of 'Stones' through the highly original patient/therapist dialogue form of the title poem, to the exuberant free verse of 'Dog Days', with a versatility and intelligence that ensure his standing as one of the most gifted poets writing today.
Afterfeast
Author: Lisa Hiton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Lisa Hiton's AFTERFEAST grapples with big stuff--painful history, gorgeous and fraught geographies, elusive sexual identity--in an authentic, dauntless voice that lends to these large subjects a gripping intimacy. To read these poems is to stand among haunted ruins on 'the hot slab of history,' to witness different kinds of survival, how disappeared and durable spaces endure alike in time, and in a mind. I envy readers their first entry into the ripe world of this book. A stunningly mature debut--symphonic and bracing and profound."--Maggie Dietz Poetry. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946482563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Lisa Hiton's AFTERFEAST grapples with big stuff--painful history, gorgeous and fraught geographies, elusive sexual identity--in an authentic, dauntless voice that lends to these large subjects a gripping intimacy. To read these poems is to stand among haunted ruins on 'the hot slab of history,' to witness different kinds of survival, how disappeared and durable spaces endure alike in time, and in a mind. I envy readers their first entry into the ripe world of this book. A stunningly mature debut--symphonic and bracing and profound."--Maggie Dietz Poetry. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies.
Chainsaws in the Cathedral
Author: Peter Trower
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
ISBN: 9781896860466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Chainsaws in the Cathedral gathers together the finest of Peter Trower's poems about the friendships and dangers of the West Coast logging life. The poems reveal Trower's marvellous tonal range, his ear attuned to the rhythms of the flesh and the wilderness.
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
ISBN: 9781896860466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Chainsaws in the Cathedral gathers together the finest of Peter Trower's poems about the friendships and dangers of the West Coast logging life. The poems reveal Trower's marvellous tonal range, his ear attuned to the rhythms of the flesh and the wilderness.
Seven Lies
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393329089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Superb. . . . Every page of this narration bears examples of Lasdun’s own poetic mastery. . . . Shockingly vivid.”—Time Out Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. By a series of increasingly dangerous maneuvers, he makes this fantasy come true, his past seemingly locked behind the Berlin Wall and a new life of unbounded bliss ahead of him. But then his world begins to fall apart.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393329089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
“Superb. . . . Every page of this narration bears examples of Lasdun’s own poetic mastery. . . . Shockingly vivid.”—Time Out Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. By a series of increasingly dangerous maneuvers, he makes this fantasy come true, his past seemingly locked behind the Berlin Wall and a new life of unbounded bliss ahead of him. But then his world begins to fall apart.
A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
The Chain Saw Dance
Author: David Budbill
Publisher: Johnson, Vt. : Crow's Mark Press
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: Johnson, Vt. : Crow's Mark Press
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Moving to Climate Change Hours
Author: Ross Belot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989496121
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ross Belot's latest collection is a dark ode to the end of oil. From industrial accidents to frozen highways Belot charts the ends of a life that face a working man in stripped-down lyric poetry. These are poems that have seen it all and acknowledge the darkness that's coming while still finding beauty in the arched neck of a tundra swan. Belot has a filmmaker's sense of atmosphere and an environmentalist's urgency and his stark lines take the reader deep into the heart of industrial man.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781989496121
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ross Belot's latest collection is a dark ode to the end of oil. From industrial accidents to frozen highways Belot charts the ends of a life that face a working man in stripped-down lyric poetry. These are poems that have seen it all and acknowledge the darkness that's coming while still finding beauty in the arched neck of a tundra swan. Belot has a filmmaker's sense of atmosphere and an environmentalist's urgency and his stark lines take the reader deep into the heart of industrial man.
Bluestone
Author: James Lasdun
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374220557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"A selection of poems spanning the career of noted British poet James Lasdun"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374220557
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"A selection of poems spanning the career of noted British poet James Lasdun"--