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Lost and Found: Poems 1975-1982
Harry Guest
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Description for Lost and Found: Poems 1975-1982
Paperback. Features the author's work written during 1975-1982. This title includes poems that are known for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion. It also contains poems evoking landscapes and history, poems of love, friendship, and 'memory and desire'. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 238. 8vo. Poetry. Good clean copy. First edition
Lost and Found contains Harry Guest's work written during 1975-1982. 'At their best Harry Guest's poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion', John Cotton wrote in 'Priapus' of his early poems. This is true of the more recent work collected here, which includes poems evoking landscapes and history, poems of love, friendship, 'memory and desire'. Lost and Found concludes with the powerful sequence of 'Elegies'; reviewing the Pig Press edition of these in The TLS , Anne Stevenson wrote, 'They take place in an autumnal ... Read more
Lost and Found contains Harry Guest's work written during 1975-1982. 'At their best Harry Guest's poems are outstanding for their precise imagery and expression of a refinement of sensibility towards atmosphere and emotion', John Cotton wrote in 'Priapus' of his early poems. This is true of the more recent work collected here, which includes poems evoking landscapes and history, poems of love, friendship, 'memory and desire'. Lost and Found concludes with the powerful sequence of 'Elegies'; reviewing the Pig Press edition of these in The TLS , Anne Stevenson wrote, 'They take place in an autumnal ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856460890
SKU
KEX0288373
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Harry Guest
With Anvil Harry Guest has published three earlier collections of poetry, a short novel 'Days' and a translation of selected poems by Victor Hugo, 'The Distance, The Shadows'. 'A Puzzling Harvest: Collected Poems', published in 2002, marked his 70th birthday. He edited and translated Penguin's 'Post-War Japanese Poetry'. His recent books include a novel 'Lost Pictures' and 'Traveller's Literary Companion ... Read more
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