New Selected Poems: 1984-2004 - Rilegato

Duffy DBE, Carol Ann

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0330433946 ISBN 13: 9780330433945

Casa editrice: Picador, 2009

Riassunto

New Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy draws together a body of work spanning from 1985 to 2004. It includes poems from six major collections, from Standing Female Nude to Feminine Gospels, and a handful of other poems, collected here for the first time. It shows a writer who hit the ground running, emerging into the world a fully formed and utterly distinctive voice, and who can be counted among the foremost of the poets of any generation. From the outset, the world is her oyster. Carol Ann Duffy's curiosity takes her across continents, and into the minds of psychopaths, babies, queens and giggling schoolgirls with equal relish. It is a strange yet disarmingly familiar world, shot with mythic, fabulous and popular histories. Language is turned inside out and upside down, its riches and exoticism found in the demotic of the everyday as much as in foreign parts. She has a quicksilver intelligence that can move from ribald mimicry one moment to an intensely tough and affecting lyricism the next. This physical, visceral poetry gives true meaning to the concept of a body of work, and will provide a perfect introduction to new readers and a glorious sum of parts to old acquaintances.

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Descrizione del libro:

The essential Carol Ann Duffy

L'autore:

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees which won the Costa Poetry Award.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0330433946
• ISBN 13: 9780330433945
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272