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In the Country of Birds
James Sutherland-Smith
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Description for In the Country of Birds
Paperback. The surface of many poems in this work draw on life in the Middle East and Middle Europe, but their interior is a tension between the allurements of the strange and a repulsion against its brutalities. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 166.
James Sutherland Smith's poems draw on his experiences of life in the Middle East and Middle Europe; what is most strange, they tell us, is to be found not in the exoticism of remote locales, but close to home. His language ventures into foreign and domestic places, into nature, politics, and the self-discoveries and self-deceptions of sexuality. A poem may begin as a purposeful quest but find its meaning in falling by the wayside. It may set out in full possession of its wits and end the journey distracted and unsure. All the poems are marked by a fascination with ... Read more
James Sutherland Smith's poems draw on his experiences of life in the Middle East and Middle Europe; what is most strange, they tell us, is to be found not in the exoticism of remote locales, but close to home. His language ventures into foreign and domestic places, into nature, politics, and the self-discoveries and self-deceptions of sexuality. A poem may begin as a purposeful quest but find its meaning in falling by the wayside. It may set out in full possession of its wits and end the journey distracted and unsure. All the poems are marked by a fascination with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857546415
SKU
V9781857546415
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About James Sutherland-Smith
JAMES SUTHERLAND SMITH was born in Aberdeen in 1948 He is currently working as the Manager for the Peacekeeping English Project in Serbia and Montenegro based in Belgrade. He has published three previous full collections, the last of which, At the Skin Resort, appeared in 1999. Together with his wife Viera, he is the major translator of Slovak poetry into ... Read more
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