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THE ASYLUM DANCE
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| By: |
John Burnside |
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Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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£9.49 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224090054 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224090056 |
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Last available stock.
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Currently 2 available |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2009 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', this title balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to refuge, simplicity, and a safe haven, while at the same time hearing the siren call from the world beyond. |
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Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own: a domestic world threaded through with myth and longing, beyond which lies a no man's land - the 'somewhere in between' - of dusk or dawn, of mists or sudden light, where the epiphanies are. Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', the poet balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to refuge, simplicity, and a safe haven, while at the same time hearing the siren call from the world beyond: the thrilling expectancy of fairground or dancehall, the possibilities of the open road. With a confident open line and complete command of the language, John Burnside writes with grace, agility and profound philosophical purpose, confirming his position in the front rank of contemporary poetry. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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