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Star City
John Gallas
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Description for Star City
Paperback. From the author of 'Practical Anarchy' and 'Resistance is Futile', this latest collection of poetry is two books in one. 'The Coalville Divan' builds on Gallas' fascination with Eastern literature, and 'Excellent Men' puts Beckett before Oort and Fellini next to the Unknown Soldier. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABU; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets returning a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little, colour narratives put Life back up there with its ... Read more
John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one. The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes moral, miniature movies out of the great scripts of old Persian sages, each of the one hundred sonnets returning a proverb to the particular lives, moments and places that made it. These little, colour narratives put Life back up there with its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547436
SKU
V9781857547436
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About John Gallas
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1950, JOHN GALLAS came to England in 1971. He is currently a teacher in the Leicestershire Student Support Service. His previous Carcanet books include Practical Anarchy (1989), Flying Carpets Over Filbert Street (1993), Grrrrr (1997) and Resistance is Futile (1999). His anthology The Song Atlas: a book of World Poetry, was published in 2002. ... Read more
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