All One Breath
Autor John Burnsideen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 feb 2014
In this absorbing, brilliant new collection -- his first since Black Cat Bone -- John Burnside examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are ‘all one breath’ and ߝ-- with that breath -- ߝhow we must strive towards the harmony of choir. Recognising that our attitudes to other creatures -- human and non-human -- cause too much damage and hurt, that ‘we'’ve been going at this for years: a steady delete of anything that tells us what we are’, these poems celebrate the fleeting, charged moments where, through measured and gracious encounters with other lives, we find our true selves, and bring some brief, insubstantial goodness and beauty into being.
He presents the world in a series of still lifes, in tableaux vivants and tableaux morts, in laboratory tests, anatomy lessons, in a Spiegelkabinett where the reflections in the mirrors, distorted as they seem, reveal buried truths. All the images are in some sense self-portraits: all are, in some way, elegies.
One of the finest and most celebrated lyric poets at work today, John Burnside is a master of the moment -- when the frames of our film seem to slow and stop and a life slips through the gap in between -- and each poem here is a perfect, uncanny hymn to humanity, set down ‘to tell the lives of others’.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780224097406
ISBN-10: 0224097407
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0224097407
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Notă biografică
JOHN BURNSIDE has published eleven previous collections of poetry, including among them The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and six works of fiction, including the novel, A Summer of Drowning, which came out in 2011. He has also written two books of memoirs, A Lie About My Father and Waking Up In Toytown. His latest collection, Black Cat Bone, won both the Forward Prize for Poetry 2011 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011.