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Fathom
Jenny Lewis
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Description for Fathom
Paperback. Contains poems that look at the layers of the pasts which create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures beneath the surface. While the poems portray the sense of incompleteness, the shadow that loss casts, a later sequence suggests how the missing pieces may be recovered from the depths. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 96.
The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis' first collection take soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures beneath the surface. It is a region of loss and of recovery, the realm where memories are stored and poetry is made. Ghosts appear. An unknown father, the 'young South Wales Borderer' who died when Lewis was a few months old, bequeaths an irrecoverable sense of incompleteness to his child. Poems about being sent away to a Masonic school, aged seven, reflect the shadow that loss ... Read more
The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis' first collection take soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures beneath the surface. It is a region of loss and of recovery, the realm where memories are stored and poetry is made. Ghosts appear. An unknown father, the 'young South Wales Borderer' who died when Lewis was a few months old, bequeaths an irrecoverable sense of incompleteness to his child. Poems about being sent away to a Masonic school, aged seven, reflect the shadow that loss ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
59
Condition
New
Number of Pages
59
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039816
SKU
V9781903039816
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Ref
99-26
About Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis' poems have appeared in the 'Oxford Poets 2000' anthology (Carcanet) and in several poetry journals. This is her first collection.
Reviews for Fathom
"Movingly direct ... an imaginative piece of writing with much to say to both women and men about how someone fights for survival with dignity and courage." Jim Burns, "Ambit"