The Night Post: A New Selection (Salt Modern Poets) - Rilegato

Matthew Sweeney

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ISBN 10: 1907773010 ISBN 13: 9781907773013

Casa editrice: Salt Publishing, 2010

Riassunto

Part of the highly-accomplished second generation of postwar Irish writers that have gone on to achieve international prominence, Sweeney has come to signify a very different Irish sensibility. Looking east towards Germany and central Europe for his models, he unifys these with a passion for surreal narrative and jet black humour. Often driven by sinister, filmic scenarios and a powerful visual imagination, Sweeney's lyric power grows from strength to strength. In this new selection, featuring a number of hitherto uncollected poems, including some very early work, we see a wilder, more disparate and disruptive poet capable of tremendous poignancy, elegance and musicality.

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L'autore:

Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1952. He moved to London in 1973 and studied at the Polytechnic of North London and the University of Freiburg. His poetry collections include Blue Shoes (1989), Cacti (1992), The Bridal Suite (1997), A Smell of Fish (2000), Selected Poems (2002), Sanctuary (2004) and Black Moon (2004). He won a Cholmondeley Award in 1987 and an Arts Council Writers Award in 1999.

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Nightlights

No cloud in sight. Wind
pants the wintry arms of trees aside,
lets moon be seen.
                 She is fat tonight,
an x-ray of a bloated skull
pinned on the huge breast of night.
A ghostly glow escapes her,
                             stretching.

I feel I'm being watched. Houses
offer temporary cover, then betray me again
to her cold deathglare.
Her sodium sentries line the street,
give their glow as reinforcement. That
is about as bright, as horrible
as a sick sun.
          
                      I get a strong stench
of being stared at.
                             I hurry.

Muffled lights of passing houses
encourage me by their indifference. They
will not be bullied into unsought alliance.

                             I turn the corner home.
The shopwindow holds moon's reflection,
shocks me with dirty tactics.
                                 Then as my roomlight
beacons across the street, a car
swings round the bend. Its headlights
transfix.

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• Editore: Salt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1907773010
• ISBN 13: 9781907773013
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192