All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems - Rilegato

Seth, Vikram

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 039458516X ISBN 13: 9780394585161

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1990

Riassunto

Presents poetry on topics ranging from lyrical studies of landscapes and places, to a narrative of the Hiroshima bombing, to meditations in the Chinese city of Suzhou

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Recensione

"Certainly not since Byron has anyone been more elegantly and literally amusing in verse."
-- Philadelphia DailyNews

"Clear as a glacial pool, often as deep, Vikram Seth's new poems shine with unfashionable virtues. Seth gives joy by writing brilliantly well, unafraid to feel and to start us feeling."
-- X. J. Kennedy
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

s novel in verse, The Golden Gate, was hailed by Gore Vidal as "the Great California Novel" and by the New Republic as "a tour de force of the transcendence of the mere tour de force." Now he brings his romance with the English language, his effortless access to the deepest reservoirs of feeling, and his ability to light up the plain surfaces of everyday life to this stunning collection of poems.

In All You Who Sleep Tonight Seth delves into the varieties of love -- love lost, remembered, and deferred. He evokes the unspeakable ironies of Auschwitz and the light-blasted streets of Hiroshima. He conducts the reader through Lion Grove in Suzhou, China, and across the Golden Gate Bridge on its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout, he displays the lyricism and attentiveness that distinguish the best poets of every era.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 039458516X
• ISBN 13: 9780394585161
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 61