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Searched for Text
Dan Burt
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Paperback. A collection of poems by a poet who is alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
"Searched for Text" is a first chapbook collection of poems by a poet alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. His elegies, poems of love and landscape, are uneasily sharp and political. He allows no sentimentality to blur the deep sentiment of his experiences: the American childhood and youth, his growing love of England and his finding places in which to be, always a little uneasily, at home. In "Un Coup de Des" he says: Chance authors all we do, The plot's contrived in ... Read more
"Searched for Text" is a first chapbook collection of poems by a poet alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. His elegies, poems of love and landscape, are uneasily sharp and political. He allows no sentimentality to blur the deep sentiment of his experiences: the American childhood and youth, his growing love of England and his finding places in which to be, always a little uneasily, at home. In "Un Coup de Des" he says: Chance authors all we do, The plot's contrived in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770547
SKU
V9781847770547
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