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Birds With A Broken Wing

Af: Adam Thorpe Engelsk Paperback

Birds With A Broken Wing

Af: Adam Thorpe Engelsk Paperback
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Adam Thorpe''s fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the ''insomniac'' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and ''the slight bruise of doubt''.

Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend''s suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive: the poet''s grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother''s voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain''s shadow...

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Adam Thorpe''s fifth collection finds purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. Juxtaposing creation and destruction, hope and grief - a small boy deep down a lead mine; an unlit, nocturnal path set against the ''insomniac'' motorway; industrialised apples against wrinkled windfalls - his poems argue for bewilderment and ''the slight bruise of doubt''.

Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend''s suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty. The book is full of such traces, delicate and fugitive: the poet''s grandmother retrieved through her ninety-year-old bookmark of rose petals; the unvoiced suggestion of his mother''s voice on an answerphone; the memory of a vanished native chief in a Canadian mountain''s shadow...

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 80
ISBN-13: 9780224079440
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0224079441
Udg. Dato: 17 maj 2007
Længde: 8mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 201mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 17 maj 2007
Forfatter(e): Adam Thorpe
Forfatter(e) Adam Thorpe


Kategori Litteraturstudier: lyrik og lyrikere


ISBN-13 9780224079440


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 80


Udgave


Længde 8mm


Bredde 136mm


Højde 201mm


Udg. Dato 17 maj 2007


Oplagsdato 17 maj 2007


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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