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For and After
Christopher Reid
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Description for For and After
Paperback. "For and After" is Christopher Reid's seventh collection of poems. In a series of dedications and translations or "versions", Reid offers poems "for" friends and loved ones, as well as works "after" such influences as Homer, Aesop, Mallarme, Rimbaud and Baudelaire. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 196 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104. 8vo.Original printed wrappers.
For and After is Christopher Reid's fourth collection of poems to be published by Faber & Faber, and his first since Expanded Universes in 1996. It consists, more or less half and half, of poems bearing dedications to friends, colleagues and loved ones, and translations or versions of works in foreign languages, including a passage from The Odyssey and a miscellany of pieces by Horace, Leopardi, Baudelaire, Rilke and others. By turns intimate and affectionate, satirical and mischievous, For and After is a dazzling insight into one of the most imaginative minds in the business.
For and After is Christopher Reid's fourth collection of poems to be published by Faber & Faber, and his first since Expanded Universes in 1996. It consists, more or less half and half, of poems bearing dedications to friends, colleagues and loved ones, and translations or versions of works in foreign languages, including a passage from The Odyssey and a miscellany of pieces by Horace, Leopardi, Baudelaire, Rilke and others. By turns intimate and affectionate, satirical and mischievous, For and After is a dazzling insight into one of the most imaginative minds in the business.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571218073
SKU
KEX0307296
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Ref
99-1
About Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009), The Song of Lunch, Nonsense and The Curiosities. For his first collection of poems for children, All Sorts, he received the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where ... Read more
Reviews for For and After
'Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's own inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation there are not more than one or two like that'. Poetry Review