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An Ordinary Dog
Gregory Woods
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Description for An Ordinary Dog
Paperback. An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186. 80 pages. An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 12. Weight: 186.
An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision to bear sceptical witness to - what? As much to the touching ordinariness of human needs as to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about desire: sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Often traduced by cussedness and always complicated by external events, desire is here constructed less in the present than in anticipation and memory; loss is resistant to the balm of forgetting. An Ordinary Dog returns repeatedly to those times of crisis when history ... Read more
An Ordinary Dog is a carnival of clashing forms and tones, all deployed with a cool wit and technical precision to bear sceptical witness to - what? As much to the touching ordinariness of human needs as to the vanity of human wishes. Woods writes about desire: sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Often traduced by cussedness and always complicated by external events, desire is here constructed less in the present than in anticipation and memory; loss is resistant to the balm of forgetting. An Ordinary Dog returns repeatedly to those times of crisis when history ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770783
SKU
V9781847770783
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-31
About Gregory Woods
Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in Ghana. Since 1998 he has been Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University (the first such appointment in the UK). Woods has published four previous poetry collectons (all with Carcanet), most recently Quidnunc (2007). He is also the author of several critical books, including Articulate ... Read more
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