Byssus - Brossura

Hadfield, Jen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 144724110X ISBN 13: 9781447241102

Casa editrice: Picador, 2014

Riassunto

Byssus—pronounced "bissus," and meaning the mussel's "beard," the tough fibers which anchor it to the seabed—is a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to mortality, to love, and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted in the common names she finds in the sea, shore, and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been widely admired for its startling originality. Here, through poems of astonishment and adoration, through charms and fables, and ultimately through a practice of attention and careful honoring—she shows how speech itself can be an act of home-making. This is a profound consideration of just what it means to get to know a place.

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Recensione:

Throughout Byssus. . . there is something magical and incantatory in the way she cherished language at the level of the name, as if utterance itself might be a way of dwelling in the real and making oneself at home there. (New Statesman)

Descrizione del libro:

A brilliant new poetry collection from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 144724110X
• ISBN 13: 9781447241102
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 69