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NINE LESSONS FROM THE DARK
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| By: |
Adam Thorpe |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1446442748 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781446442746 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2013 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
A fourth collection that continues the author's engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. It features poems, formally versatile yet rich in startlingly original observation and a natural lyric grace. |
| Synopsis: |
Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence: Indian scratchings on rock, the nail-marks of destroyed frescoes, spoken fragments of war memories - petroglyphs that function as both memorials and re-awakenings, traceable with the finger of the imagination. And here, too, are images of the stilled, the stopped life: a snowed-up village, the paralysed victim of motor-neurone disease, a soft drink fermented in an old village cafe. From this rueful equilibrium of mid-life, Thorpe circles his own personal history, allowing regret and anticipation their Janus-like say. These are erudite, generous poems, formally versatile yet rich in startlingly original observation and a natural lyric grace. Performing his unique archaeology on lives lived, Adam Thorpe once again displays the range of his imagination and the depth of his humanity. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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