The Wrecking Light
Robin Robertson's fourth collection is, if anything, an even more intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book than Swithering, winner of the Forward Prize. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary: the poet's gaze - whether on the natural world or the details of his own life - is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry and disarming humour. Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic (and at times horrific) retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems in The Wrecking Light pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-1813-5
- EAN: 9781447218135
- Produktnummer: 13931383
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'035 KB
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