Walking Home: A Poet's Journey [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Armitage, Simon

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0871407434 ISBN 13: 9780871407436

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2022

Riassunto

An award-winning poet and translator walks the Pennine Way through England and describes his experiences stopping each night to give a poetry reading in a different village in return for a place to sleep, like a traveling troubadour of old.

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The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain's version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking "the backbone of England" by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet's place in our bustling world. In Armitage's own words, "to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self."

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0871407434
• ISBN 13: 9780871407436
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 285