Somewhere Else Entirely - Brossura

Fainlight, Ruth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780374380 ISBN 13: 9781780374383

Casa editrice: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2018

Riassunto

Ruth Fainlight is one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Born in New York City, she has lived mostly in England since the age of 15, publishing her first collection, Cages, in 1966, and her retrospective, New & Collected Poems, in 2010. Her poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. Her poems `give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. She has always drawn on a wide range of subject-matter, yet the arc of her attention has shifted in her later work, the meaning and effect of the passage of time becoming more central and fascinating as she ages. Written during her 80s, the poems of Somewhere Else Entirely are shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe. The book also includes several short pieces of prose, memoirs of childhood years spent in the USA: firstly, those from zero to five years old, then a group about the ages between 10 and 15, during the Second World War, when their mother took her and her brother Harry back to their American birthplace.

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Ruth Fainlight is an American-born poet, now eighty-eight, who moved to England at the age of sixteen... She published a New & Collected Poems in 2010, and the motherhood poems of her first collection Cages (1966), as well as the elegy for Plath, 'Autumn Stirring', provide a useful context for the humility, the acquired wisdom and uncertainty we find in her latest book, Somewhere Else Entirely, which is a welcome addition to her considerable achievement. --Kathryn Maris, Times Literary Supplement

Her New & Collected Poems, representing half a century's work, asks us to read her writing life as a journey that never really ends, even with publication of a monumental achievement... an extraordinary maturity of voice and vision. The essential continuity of her work is immediately striking; the poems affirm her own sense of poetry (and life) as a constant happening, the past a perpetual present. --Fran Brearton, The Guardian

Her voice can be cutting as well as lyrical... Fainlight is terrific on the subject of ageing. --Helen Dunmore, Poetry Review

L'autore:

Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the US and England, and has lived in England since the age of 15, mostly in London. She was Poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 1985 and 1990, and Writing Tutor at the Performing Arts Labs, International Opera and Music Theatre Labs in the UK in 1997-99. She lives in London, and was married to the late Alan Sillitoe. Her latest collection Somewhere Else Entirely (2018) is her first book of poems since New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), which drew on over a dozen collections published over 50 years. Four of those collections were originally published by Bloodaxe, including Sugar-Paper Blue (1997), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Other collections were published by Macmillan, Hutchinson and Sinclair-Stevenson.

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• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1780374380
• ISBN 13: 9781780374383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96