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Paperback. The title of "Thumb's Width" indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two brothers, the poems often settle on small objects - shrimps, cigarettes, "cat's eyes", plastic soldiers - to which childhoods may become attached. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 99. 8vo.Original printed wrappers. First edition
The title of "Thumb's Width", from the German "Daumenbreite" (roughly equivalent to an inch), indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two brothers, the poems often settle on small objects - shrimps, cigarettes, "cat's eyes", plastic soldiers - to which childhoods may become attached. Beginning with the west coast of Ireland, particularly the tiny islands where human settlement has ceased, the book travels outward, geographically and thematically, through a wide variety of lyric, comic and dramatic forms. These patterns act to include the smaller, remembered patterns of an Irish childhood into the larger shapes of ... Read more
The title of "Thumb's Width", from the German "Daumenbreite" (roughly equivalent to an inch), indicates the book's preoccupation with the miniature. Sketching the childhood relationship between two brothers, the poems often settle on small objects - shrimps, cigarettes, "cat's eyes", plastic soldiers - to which childhoods may become attached. Beginning with the west coast of Ireland, particularly the tiny islands where human settlement has ceased, the book travels outward, geographically and thematically, through a wide variety of lyric, comic and dramatic forms. These patterns act to include the smaller, remembered patterns of an Irish childhood into the larger shapes of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545098
SKU
KEX0307348
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Redmond
JOHN REDMOND was born in Dublin and read English and History at University College Dublin, followed by a Masters in Anglo-Irish literature at the same institution. He is completing a D. Phil on contemporary British and Irish poetry at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Writing since he was eighteen, he is inspired by the landscape of Connemara. He has played chess ... Read more
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