The Balcony Tree.

Middleton, Christopher:

ISBN 10: 0856359815 / ISBN 13: 9780856359811

Editore: Manchester, New York: Carcanet, 1992

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143 S. Mit Widmung des Autors für Katja [Wagenbach]. Einband leicht berieben. - Contents: An Ideologist -- Ancient Lace -- Anguish -- An Angel -- Bird Watching -- Still Small Voice -- Devil Lyric -- Michele's Rooms -- A Revenant -- La Morena -- Cybele -- The China Virgins -- Dust with Whisky -- Night Wedding in Anamur -- Circle -- Bailad of Charlotte -- A Farewell in Old Mexico -- The Balcony Tree -- Walking the Puppy -- The First Move -- Vietnamese Harp -- Saloon with Birds -- Roma 1985 -- Another Almost -- Lampoon -- Empty Fifth -- Cool Places -- All It Was -- Tristia ex Provincia -- The Headland -- Stele in Istanbul -- Titian's Vettere Giacente -- The Clothes Moth -- A Huapango for Junius Avitus -- The Matter of History -- Muzzafar and Mutadid -- August 1939 -- Mongolian Breakfast -- A Moment in the Eighteenth Century -- The Image -- Shredded Novel -- From Earth Myriad Robed -- The Turkish Rooftops. ISBN 9780856359811 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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• Titolo: The Balcony Tree.
• Editore: Manchester, New York: Carcanet
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0856359815
• ISBN 13: 9780856359811
• Rilegatura: Originalbroschur.
• Condizione: Gut
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Riassunto

Increasingly sought after by contrary poets on both sides of the Atlantic, Christopher Middleton's work develops fresh aspects in The Balcony Tree. There is a grief for time as history pulverizing the very structures of belief it articulates; there is a celebration of the lyrical cogito as a subversive agentcook, angel or clown - in the ceremonies of imagination.
Pointedly counterthematic as they are, these poems turn upon varieties of feeling clarified otherwise than in more cryptic earlier work. The art consists in the modelling, fusion or collision of images born from feeling and eruptive when, for all it is worth, imagination splits waves of time into sensuous particles, and so may rightly mistake an instantaneous fiction for some still distant truth.
If 'self' as an instrument of feeling is 'put on the line', still it rules no roost. At most a voice abides, murmurous, observing the imperative long ago divined by Julie de Lespinasse: 'Glide, mortals, don't push it.'
Equally apposite might be the words of Edward Lear about to leave Corfu: 'Goodbye, my last furniture is going: - I shall sit upon an eggcup and eat my breakfast with a pen.'

Informazioni sull?autore

Born in Cornwall in 1926, CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON studied at Merton College, Oxford, and taught German at Kings College, London. Since 1965 he has taught at the University of Texas, Austin.