Jeffrey Wainwright

As Best We Can

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As Best We Can, Jeffrey Wainwright's seventh collection, marks a change of key for the poet. After the elegiac tone of The Reasoner (2016), the poems and sequences included here settle for the poet's present world. They listen to what dreams have to tell, and (with humour underwriting their concentration) they worry at the labour and release of creative work. As always in Wainwright, history - personal and political - is alive in the present. The rendering of simple elements in 'The Window-Ledge', without commentary, is among his most lucid and radical poems. By effacing the 'I' he shares experience most fully with the reader, making and shar… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-80017-050-6
EAN: 9781800170506
Produktnummer: 34584280
Verlag: Carcanet
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 213 KB

Über den Autor

Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated locally and at the University of Leeds. He taught American Studies at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth and for a year (1970-71) at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY. In 1973 he moved to Manchester Polytechnic, later Manchester Metropolitan University, from where he retired as Professor of English in 2009. In 1984 he was Judith Wilson Fellow at St John's College Cambridge. He has translated Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, Pierre Corneille and Bernard-Marie Koltès for the RSC, the BBC and the Actors' Touring Company. He was northern theatre critic for The Independent newspaper for eleven years. His literary criticism includes Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (MUP) and Poetry the Basics (Routledge). Jeffrey Wainwright lives in Manchester and for part of the year in Umbria.