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The Beautiful Librarians
Andrew Marvell
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Description for The Beautiful Librarians
Paperback. New collection of astonishing variety and virtuosity from the leading English poet of his generation. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 199 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar - but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their ... Read more
Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar - but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447287513
SKU
V9781447287513
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About Andrew Marvell
Sean O'Brien is a poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He grew up in Hull and now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Drowned Book won both the Forward Prize for best collection and the T S Eliot Prize. His most recent ... Read more
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