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Title: FORNALUTX
SELECTED POEMS, 1928-1990
By: Irving Layton
Format: Hardback

List price: £83.00


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ISBN 10: 0773509526
ISBN 13: 9780773509528
Publisher: MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 20 October, 1992
Pages: 208
Synopsis: Brian Trehearne provides an lyric introduction that explores the "voices" and "vision" of Layton's poetry, particularly the present collection. "`Fornalutx,' the poem from which this volume takes its title, sets out the clash of joyful expectation and frustrated desire that lies at the heart of this late retrospective collection of the poems of Irving Layton ... The poem's bitter descent, with its rich epic overtones, may be taken as an emblem of Irving Layton's poetic vision and nature. In it is contained his instinc-tual readiness for joy and its persistent confounding by the sour earth on which he finds himself. Here is his willingness to damn; here too are his favoured symbols, twisted by a vile human nature into sources of suffering and confusion. Here is that striking casualness of tone that disguises the meticulous rhythmic expression of his poems. And here, too, is the self-irony that has generated his most successful and compelling poetry." from the Introduction
Publication: Canada
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Returns: Returnable
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