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Grotesque Tenderness
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Afraid to be alone / we met by lamplight, trading stories: // Sin of Man was one, // Age of Science, another. More // prayers than answers. Daniel Cowper''s debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age, for unrooted people. In these poems, city-dwellers long to ally themselves with some sympathetic culture or the evolutionary logic of nature, but those alliances remain conditional, ambiguous, or dangerous. A tsunami smashes a harbour city into “tide-rows of burning debris”; children chase snakes in summer meadows. The primordial past spins off “rogue by-products and flawed replicas,” while lonely office workers get high on back porches and drink themselves to sleep. The musical and kinetic energy of Grotesque Tenderness is driven by our urge to understand pain and our hunger to reach an imperfect reconciliation with the problems of guilt and suffering. But in the tradition of William Blake, these poems affirm again and again that “the lit / world goes on living” and life justifies itself through its own workings. From elegant lyrics of alienation and heartbreak to long-form mythopoeia and lament, these poems approach beauty, ugliness, even criminality in a spirit of wonder and vulnerability.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
144
ISBN-13:
9780773556270
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0773556273
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 2019
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
128mm
Højde:
190mm
Forlag:
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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