The Bees - Brossura

Duffy, Carol Ann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865478082 ISBN 13: 9780865478084

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014

Riassunto

Presenting her first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, the author, displaying her full poetic range in this highly anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture, uses the bee to symbolize the book's presiding spirit.

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L'autore:

Carol Ann Duffy is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The World's Wife, Rapture, as well as edited poetry collections and books for children. She has received, among other honors, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Lannan Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize for her work. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy lives in Manchester, England, and is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Product Description:

A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" ("The Guardian")"The Bees "is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning "Rapture." After the intimate focus of the earlier book, "The Bees "finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, and poems of political anger. There are elegies, too, for beloved friends and--most movingly--for the poet's mother. As Duffy's voice rises in this collection, her music intensifies, and every poem patterns itself into song. Woven into and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject, sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge--and the reader soon begins to anticipate its appearance. In the end, Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. "The Bees "is Duffy's clearest affirmation yet of her belief in the poem as "secular prayer," as the means by which we remind ourselves of what is most worthy of our attention and concern, our passion and our praise.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0865478082
• ISBN 13: 9780865478084
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 84