Swithering - Brossura

Robertson, Robin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 015603199X ISBN 13: 9780156031998

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2006

Riassunto

To "swither" means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range-from raw, exposed poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics about the ends of desire, from a brilliant retelling of the metamorphosis and death of Actaeon to the final freeing of the waters in "Holding Proteus." At times somber, at times exultant, Robertson's poems are always firmly rooted in the world we see, the life we experience: original, precise, and startlingly clear.

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Recensione:

PRAISE FOR ROBIN ROBERTSON
"Each poem comes to us so cleansed of excess, so concentrated and perfectly pared down to its essence we can only wonder at the adamantine sharpness of its edges."-BILLY COLLINS

"The genius of this Scots poet is for finding the sensually charged moment-in a raked northern seascape, in a sexual or gustatory encounter-and depicting it in language that is simultaneously spare and ample."-THE NEW YORKER

L'autore:

ROBIN ROBERTSON's poetry appears regularly in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has two previously published collections of poems, A Painted Field and Slow Air. In 2004 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 015603199X
• ISBN 13: 9780156031998
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 85