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Item Details
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URBAN MYTHS
210 POEMS |
| By: |
John Tranter |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844712524 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844712526 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2006 |
| Pages: |
436 |
| Description: |
John Tranter is a leading international modern poet based in Australia. Urban Myths is the distillation of forty years' work and twenty published books, and in over three hundred pages of poems it gives a wide-ranging sampling of his writing: historically aware yet very contemporary, technically gifted yet easy to read. |
| Synopsis: |
Urban Myths collects a wide range of John Tranter's best writing from a forty-year career together with a generous selection of recent poems. His work is noted for its technical virtuosity and masterful handling of traditional forms in a modern context including sonnets, haibun, haiku, odes, elegy, and Sapphics. There are poems like snapshots, a few lines long, and a film noir story that runs for over thirty pages. There are flashes of lyrical beauty and desperate adventures, fear and loathing in America and a quiet drink in a waterfront bar in ancient Alexandria. Many of Tranter's poems engage with literary exemplars - Callimachus, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Rimbaud, Sartre, O'Hara - and hold up their attitudes and procedures to a sharp contemporary scrutiny. Alongside his more approachable narrative, lyric and critical work John Tranter has persistently explored a project of experimentation, interrogating the traffic between speech, writing and meaning, and challenging the preconceptions of the reader.In one example, Shakespeare's The Tempest is reduced to a dozen pages; in another, a gaggle of literary figures have their work shredded in a computer only to see it reborn in a fresh guise. For all its delight in scholarship and the ironies of history, this writing is focussed on the hopes, dreams, fears and desires of the here and now. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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