Leaving Eden (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Strauss, Liane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844714462 ISBN 13: 9781844714469

Verlag: Salt Publishing, 2010

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Críticas:

The most characteristic mark of a Strauss poem is its rhetorical authority. Strauss writes as if she's confidently mapping the secret grammar and physics of the universe. She has a fine ear for cadence, rhythm and rhyme ― half, quarter, eighth.... nano? ― and she can certainly pull off the tight, concise, exquisitely crafted thing, though she usually prefers to give her poems a freer rein and let them build up their characteristic dizzying momentum, as in the present selection.

Liane Strauss writes fresh, compelling, edgy, intelligent poetry and I'm delighted to play a part in introducing it to a wider audience.
(Michael Donaghy The Limelight, 2003)

Liane Strauss can drive a standard romantic line straight at the wall of cliche and spin the wheel at the last moment ("The nothings you whispered were not sweet") so that the whole idea turns into a memorable night out, with a picnic on the canal bank at dawn as the car finishes sinking out of sight. But she has no chance of turning off the glamour that her hurtling forms generate.... Her work is helping to provide the dazzling evidence that there is a new school of poets in London for whom the Atlantic has simply disappeared. (Clive James www.clivejames.com)

Reseña del editor:

The mind in love is an Eden, and a labyrinth; a return to innocence, and a serpent that seduces itself. This book of twenty-first century love poems follows the intricate, often-bewildering ways of the mind in love and pursues its themes, like Ariadne's thread, through a maze of voices that range from that of a young Salome confronting her first loss to that of an eleventh-century Japanese courtesan as her grip on her emotions begins to unravel.

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• Verlag: Salt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844714462
• ISBN 13: 9781844714469
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96