Misadventure - Brossura

Richard Meier

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447208463 ISBN 13: 9781447208464

Casa editrice: Picador, 2012

Riassunto

Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard Meier's first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier's poems are often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will soon discover a poet capable of illuminating the darkest corners of our lives by the very lightest of touches, and an ear simultaneously attuned to the lyric poem and the cadence of real speech. The collection also contains some disarmingly tender poetry on the experience of fatherhood. Misadventure is about all the hope and hopelessness lurking just below the surface of things, in our rooms, tables, coats and gardens - and leaves them enriched and strange, under the transforming eye of a fine new talent.

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`Misadventure is life's lessons in verse. It's quietly charming, unassuming and, in places, moving. `Building Matilda' in particular, is simply beautiful. Meier's words almost whisper the joy, the heartbreak, the sorrows, the regret, the wonder of hindsight. It's a gentle read that is overwhelming at times, like waves breaking gently on shore, yet the power further out at sea has been building and a bigger wave occurs, knocking your feet from under you. It's a wonderful debut collection and thoroughly recommended. Also the cover art by Claire Sully is quite beautiful too and resonates Meier's suggestion that it's the little things that make a difference too.'
--Book A Poet

`Richard Meier's brilliant first collection displays a fine sense of humour too. The title poem, featuring a man enamoured with a high-pressure patio cleaner who turns it on himself, shoots from the comic to the tragic. "Unlard" is a beautiful word for an ugly process.'
--Sunday Telegraph

'Meier has a musical ear, and a command of pause and shape that is at once informal and precise. We shall hear much of him.' --The Times

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Winner of the Picador Poetry Prize 2010

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1447208463
• ISBN 13: 9781447208464
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64